An Essex County, N.J., man who sells watches and other merchandise through Internet sites such as eBay pleaded guilty to filing a fraudulent tax return.
Jaime Virtucio, 59, of Bloomfield, pleaded guilty to subscribing to a false personal tax return. At his plea hearing, Virtucio admitted that he received payment from Internet sources, including PayPal and CPS Merchant Services, directly into bank accounts he controlled in return for merchandise he sold
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Thoeun Chan, 52, of Germantown, Tenn., was sentenced to eight months in prison and ordered to pay $207,142.30 in restitution following his guilty plea for tax evasion. Chan, owner of Handiworks Jewelry and Winchester Pawn and Jewelry in Memphis, admitted he failed to report about $274,875 in income for 2001 and about $277,277 in income for 2002. These false returns resulted in a tax loss of approximately $207,142.30.

An international businessman will spend the next year and a half behind bars after failing to report hundreds of thousands of dollars in income.
Thomas Rikki Farr, 66, of Scottsdale, Ariz., was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for willfully filing a false income tax return. Farr will also be placed on one year of supervised release upon his release from federal custody.
When Farr pleaded guilty in June 2008, he
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Jon Wilk, 48, of Wakefield, R.I., pleaded guilty to income tax evasion, admitting he failed to report about $648,000 in income from his masonry company. Wilk tried to conceal his income by converting business checks to cash, getting paid personally, and depositing customer checks into his girlfriend’s bank account. In addition, in 2004, Wilk asked clients to make checks out to him personally rather than to the business. He faces
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