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What Does a San Jose Priest Have in Common with Al Capone? Prison!

On Behalf of | Oct 11, 2017 | DOJ |

No one is beyond the certainty of taxes, as a priest for the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose, California, discovered last week. Hien Minh Nguyen was sentenced to 36 months in prison for taking cash and checks donated to the Diocese by parishioners and depositing them into his personal bank account to pay for personal expenses. The court found that the priest embezzled a total of $1.4 million from the Catholic Church and, by concealing the embezzlement from his return preparer, evaded over $500,000 in income taxes owed to the IRS.

Mr. Nguyen was ordered to three years of supervised release after his prison sentence, and will have to pay over $1.8 million in restitution.

To read the DOJ press release about this case, click here.

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