Posts Tagged ‘conspiracy’

Comtrol Exec Gets 43 Months

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

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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Prisoner Filed 35 False Returns from Big House

Saturday, May 5th, 2007

Ronald Dean Wells was charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States and making false claims stemming from a false tax refund scheme he operated from Ohio prisons.According to the charges, Wells obtained the names and Social Security numbers of other prisoners, in most cases without their knowledge, which he used to prepare false tax returns claiming tax refunds in their names based on fictitious wages and tax withholdings. In
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SIX IN ALA. SCHEMED TO RIP OFF GOVERNMENT TO TUNE OF $700,000

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

An elaborate scheme to file false tax returns resulted in the indictment of six Birmingham, Ala., residents on charges of conspiracy, filing false claims, bank fraud and witness tampering.
The government alleges that six people — Al Morton Jr., 37; Cheryl Harrell, 39; Queshawndra Randolph, 29; Alteago Hopson, 30; Pearline Bloxom, 25; and Katisha Brown, 39 — filed 121 false
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Man Guilty in $20 Scheme

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

The former general manager of Oxnard, Calif.-based Haas Automation Inc. pleaded guilty to conspiring with the company’s owner to put bogus expenses on the company books in an attempt to avoid paying more than $20 million in federal income taxes.
Denis Arthur Dupuis, 51, Newbury Park, Calif., pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy.
The scheme allegedly started in 2000 after Haas
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