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Jackson was forced from the House  chamber after United States Attorney Dana Bonte charged him with two counts of willful failure to file federal income taxes and another count of making a fraudulent statement in his annual tax return. Jackson was alleged to have misrepresented on a federal tax return how much his company, Diversified Ventures, earned in the year 2006. Prosecutors said that the company made about $600,000 from contracts while Jackson and his wife listed $108,000. That discrepancy caused the Jacksons to avoid payment of nearly $80,000 in taxes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ballotpedia.org/Girod_Jackson,_III|title=Girod Jackson, III|publisher=ballotpedia.org|accessdate=July 12, 2020}}</ref>

Jackson was forced from the House  chamber after United States Attorney Dana Bonte charged him with two counts of willful failure to file federal income taxes and another count of making a fraudulent statement in his annual tax return. Jackson was alleged to have misrepresented on a federal tax return how much his company, Diversified Ventures, earned in the year 2006. Prosecutors said that the company made about $600,000 from contracts while Jackson and his wife listed $108,000. That discrepancy caused the Jacksons to avoid payment of nearly $80,000 in taxes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ballotpedia.org/Girod_Jackson,_III|title=Girod Jackson, III|publisher=ballotpedia.org|accessdate=July 12, 2020}}</ref>

Jackson pleaded guilty to the charges and was sentenced by [[Judge]] Jane Margaret Triche-Milazzo of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, an appointee of [[U.S. President]] [[Barack H. Obama]], to three months in prison, nine months of home detention, $97,374 in restitution, and thereafter a year of supervised release. The sentence was less severe than the guidelines for the crime, which stipulate twelve to eighteen months in prison. Judge Milazzo cited Jackson's military service in Operation Desert Storm, his family life, and the lack of a criminal history as mitigating factors in determining the punishment.<ref name=nola>{{cite web|url=http://nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/03/former_state_rep_girod_jackson_3.html|title=Former state Rep. Girod Jackson sentenced to three months in prison, nine months at home|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|author=Juliet Linderman|date=March 14, 2014|accessdate=May 8, 2015}}</ref>​

Jackson pleaded guilty to the charges and was sentenced by [[Judge]] Jane Margaret Triche-Milazzo of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, an appointee of [[U.S. President]] [[Barack H. Obama]], to three months in prison, nine months of home detention, $97,374 in restitution, and thereafter a year of supervised release. The sentence was less severe than the guidelines for the crime, which stipulate twelve to eighteen months in prison. Judge Milazzo cited Jackson's military service in Operation Desert Storm, his family life, and the lack of a criminal history as mitigating factors in determining the punishment.<ref name=nola>{{cite web|url=http://nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/03/former_state_rep_girod_jackson_3.html|title=Former state Rep. Girod Jackson sentenced to three months in prison, nine months at home|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|author=Juliet Linderman|date=March 14, 2014|accessdate=July 12, 2020}}</ref>​

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Jackson served his sentence from April to July, 2014, at the Federal Correctional Institution in Oakdale  in Allen Parish, south of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]]. Former [[U.S. Representative]] [[William J. Jefferson]] of Louisiana's 2nd congressional district served a 13-year sentence at the same institution for political corruption.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/04/ex-legislator_girod_jackson_ii.html|title=Ex-Legislator Girod Jackson III reports to Oakdale prison for tax crimes|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|date=​April 23, 2015|author=Andrea Shaw|accessdate=May 8, 2015}}</ref>​

Jackson served his sentence from April to July, 2014, at the Federal Correctional Institution in Oakdale  in Allen Parish, south of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]]. Former [[U.S. Representative]] [[William J. Jefferson]] of Louisiana's 2nd congressional district served a 13-year sentence at the same institution for political corruption.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/04/ex-legislator_girod_jackson_ii.html|title=Ex-Legislator Girod Jackson III reports to Oakdale prison for tax crimes|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|date=​April 23, 2015|author=Andrea Shaw|accessdate=May 8, 2015}}</ref>​