A nuclear engineer will spend the next 15 months in prison after pleading guilty to fraud and tax evasion.Mark M. Kaushansky, 56, of Monroeville, Penn., was also fined $20,000 and ordered to serve three years of supervised release after completing his sentence.
Kaushansky had previously pleaded guilty to obstructing the Internal Revenue Service in the collection of the revenues and eight counts of personal and corporate tax evasion. The court had
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The former president of Comtrol Corporation of Maple Grove, Minn., was sentenced to 43 months in prison for conspiracy and tax evasion.Lee D. Stagni, 53, of Plymouth, Minn., helped Comtrol’s owner and CEO, Robert Beale, evade $2.5 million in federal and state taxes and more than $280,000 of his own taxes. Stagni also was ordered to pay a $60,000 fine and cooperate with the Internal Revenue Service in paying approximately
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For what it’s worth, you should know your position isn’t unusual. Many businessmen who are fabulously successful accept bad tax advice, and by the time they realize they owe a large sum to the IRS, they are no longer making the same income that helped them dig so far into tax debt.
But don’t worry. You have options. Since you know you owe the money and want to find
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Alan L. Homsy, 45, of Allston, Mass., pleaded guilty to two counts of filing false tax returns, eight counts of false and fraudulent claims for tax refunds and 18 counts of failure to collect and pay employment taxes. Homsy owned and operated moving companies, and evidence showed he failed to collect and pay the IRS more than $85,000 owed for income taxes withheld from employee wages and for employer FICA
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A federal grand jury indicted Ndubuisi Joseph Okafor, a 49-year-old doctor in Mitchellville, Md., on charges of tax evasion and filing a false federal tax return.According to the 13-count indictment, Dr. Okafor operated a medical practice called The Okafor Group, which provided primary care medicine in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area.
The indictment alleges that from 1997 to 2005, Okafor evaded his taxes by reporting false information to the IRS and
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A doctor in Northern California pleaded guilty to tax evasion and has agreed to pay the United States $900,000 in back taxes.Leroy Albert Lewis, of Danville, Calif., was charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and four counts of tax evasion. Under the plea agreement, Lewis pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy.
According to the indictment, for more than 10 years, Lewis, an oral surgeon, attempted
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Following an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, Michael and Jan Watts pleaded guilty to one count of filing a false tax return.Michael Watts, 60, and Jan Watts, 54, formerly of San Martin, were charged with one count of income tax evasion. In a superseding information, prosecutors also charged the Watts with one count of filing a false tax return.
Under the plea agreement, the Watts pleaded guilty to
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Oil executive Jack R. Durland Jr., formerly of Gulfport, Miss., pleaded guilty to federal income tax evasion.Durland served as vice president of Gulfport Oil & Gas and as vice president of T.J. Oil & Gas. For the 1999 tax year, he failed to report $55,000 in salary payments from T.J. Oil. For the 2000 tax year, he failed to report $5,000 in salary payments he received from T.J. Oil. Also
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John J. Lawbaugh, the former chief executive officer of two Maryland investment companies, pleaded guilty to wire fraud, theft from a registered investment company and income tax evasion.”By abusing his authority as chief executive officer of two investment companies, Mr. Lawbaugh stole more than $1.2 million,” said U.S. Atty. Rod J. Rosenstein. “It is essential for us to protect investors in order to preserve public confidence in our financial markets.”
According
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Following a three-week trial in Denver that resulted in his conviction on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and filing false tax returns, tax fraud promoter Robert N. Bedford, 60, of Seminole, Fla., was sentenced to serve 42 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release.The evidence established that Bedford provided legal and tax advice to his co-conspirators on how to circumvent IRS regulations and create
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The Offer in Compromise started as an IRS program after tax-collection agents learned a hard lesson: The strong arm isn’t always the most effective one.
After years and years of beating on doors in an effort to chase down those who owe back taxes, the IRS realized that, in some situations, a gentler approach can be more effective.
Enter the Offer in Compromise.
If you think you might benefit
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Following an IRS criminal investigation, a federal grand jury indicted Fawzi Mahmoud Swalim, a former resident of San Francisco, with filing false tax returns from 2000 to 2002. According to the indictment, Swalim, 53, is alleged to have filed false tax returns from 2000 to 2002, which underreported gross receipts of his retail grocery business. He faces up to three years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

Connecticut cosmetic surgeon Teresita Mascardo, 59, was sentenced to five years of probation, the first four months of which she must spend confined to her home with electronic monitoring. Mascardo pleaded guilty to one count of making and subscribing a false income tax return. Mascardo skimmed income from her company, resulting in a total tax deficiency of $17,206 tax loss for the year 2000.

Robert N. Shearburn Sr., 66, of Washougal, Wash., and formerly of Glendale, Ariz., was sentenced to 12 months in prison after pleading to Making and Subscribing to Materially False Tax Return.Shearburn admitted he had signed and filed a tax return for the year 2000 that he knew contained materially false information. He admitted that when he filed the 2000 tax return, he knew that his income and tax due and
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The former owner of a Valencia, Calif., company pleaded guilty to conspiring with the owner of the Oxnard-based Haas Automation Inc., who allegedly engineered a $20 million tax fraud scheme.Robert Gene Cable, 75, the former owner of Enmark Aerospace, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to impede, impair, obstruct and defeat the lawful functions of the IRS. Cable admitted that he conspired with Gene Haas and others employed at
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