Posts Tagged ‘defraud’

So-Called Priest Used Fake Church to be Tax Exempt

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Self-proclaimed priest Earl R. Wolfe, 59, was convicted on charges of conspiring to defraud the United States and six counts of filing a false tax return. According to court documents, from 1999 to 2004, Wolfe reported $600 of income on tax returns. However, he in fact earned more than $750,000 as an unlicensed architect. Wolfe attempted to conceal his income by cashing more than $600,000 at a local check-cashing store and
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Former Lawman, Politician Pleads Guilty to Fraud

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

A former Far Hills, N.J., councilman who served as the town council’s police commissioner pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder approximately $700,000 in what he believed to be the proceeds of loan sharking and illegal gambling as part of a scheme to defraud the IRS of more than $200,000 he owed in personal income taxes.Thomas A. Greenwald, 53, admitted that he was introduced to two individuals allegedly involved in loan
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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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