Often times when someone is charged with a crime, that person may have a chance to significantly reduce their sentence by sharing relevant information with the Department of Justice about other criminal activity previously unknown to the department. Many defendants...
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Fraudsters Found Guilty for Billion-Dollar Syndicated Conservation Easement Tax Scam
Two tax shelter promoters were found guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, aiding and assisting the filing of false tax returns and subscribing to false returns, and one was also convicted of money laundering. The defendants, Jack Fisher and James Sinnott,...
Money Laundering is Dirty Business – U.S. and Foreign Law Enforcement Work Together to Cleaning Up Crime
Thanks to the efforts by the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, and our law enforcement partners in Austria and Lebanon, Sezgin Baran Korkmaz was apprehended in Austria, and extradited to Utah where he was indicted on charges for fraud and money laundering exceeding...
Cheesesteak Restaurant Owners Plead Guilty to Tax Conspiracy
For more than a decade, two owners of Tony Luke’s Philadelphia Cheesesteak Restaurant paid employees partially in cash in order to defraud the IRS by reporting and paying lower payroll taxes. They were also charged with conspiracy to defraud the government by...
California Man Found Decades After Evading the IRS
In December 2000, Robin J. McPherson, formerly of San Diego, plead guilty of conspiring to defraud the IRS, and for tax evasion. McPherson was the President, CEO, and co-owner of Continental Wireless Cable, Inc., a telemarketing company that sold more than $30...
California Businessman Indicted on Tax Charges
The importance of paying over employment taxes cannot be overstated. Larry Kudsk, a Berkeley construction businessman, learned this the hard way recently when he was indicted on seven counts of failing to pay over employment taxes he withheld from employee’s...
Employment Tax Fraud Remains Top Priority of DOJ
Last week, the Department of Justice reported on several employment tax fraud cases. In Virginia, James C. Jones, Jr., an ambulance business owner, was arraigned and charged with multiple crimes including tax evasion and filing false tax returns. Mr. Jones allegedly...
(Tax) Crime and Punishment
Oleg Tinkov, a Russian-born former U.S. citizen who renounced his U.S. citizenship three days after his assets rose to over one billion dollars, has agreed to pay over $500 million in taxes, penalties, and interest to the U.S. Treasury! Tinkov lied on his U.S. Initial...
Rubber Checks Meet the Tax Evasion Road
Tax evaders can certain be creative when it comes to evading the assessment of tax, or evading the payment of tax, but they often get caught. This was the case for a Utah chiropractor who used a variety of tactics to avoid paying the IRS nearly $350,000 in tax. ...
Courts Continue to Authorize John Doe Summonses to Obtain Taxpayer Information of Cryptocurrency Users
On May 5, 2021, a federal court in the Northern District of California authorized the IRS to serve a John Doe summons on Payward Ventures, Inc., and Subsidiaries d/b/a Kraken, to obtain information on U.S. taxpayers who had at least $20,000 in cryptocurrency...
