Filing False Tax Return Gets Lawyer One Year in Prison
Leslie W. Jacobs, 67, of Gates Mills, Ohio, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine after pleading guilty to making and subscribing to false personal income tax returns. According to court records, Jacobs, a partner in a Cleveland law firm, filed joint income tax return on which he inflated his law firm business expense deductions and, as a result, falsely understated his law firm partnership income by approximately $252,257.
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