A former chief of staff to a member of the Newark (N.J.) Municipal Council received six months in prison and six months of home confinement for evading income taxes.
Richard Allen Whitten, 50, of Newark, pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion for his fraudulent W-4 form and subsequent failure to file a federal tax return. Whitten claimed phony exemptions and failed to file an individual income tax return.
In addition
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A Tennessee husband and wife face prison time after pleading guilty to two counts of willful failure to file tax returns.
Angela Palmer worked in the tax years 2005 and 2006 as a mortgage broker and earned extra income giving music lessons. Her husband, Warren Palmer, worked from 2004 to 2006 in construction and other jobs. They both lived in Knoxville, Tenn.
According to court records, the Palmers kept money in an
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A New Jersey criminal defense attorney who has not filed a personal income tax return since 2000 admitted to committing tax crimes in connection with income he received from his law practice.
Francis Cutruzzula, 48, of River Vale, N.J., pleaded guilty to two counts of tax evasion and one count of failure to file a tax return.
A 1988 graduate of Seton Hall Law School, Cutruzzula was admitted to practice law in
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If you failed to file a tax return, for whatever reason, you still have a right to file a late tax return (also known as delinquent tax filing) no matter how late it’s filed!  Why should you file a delinquent tax return?  For one thing, it gets the IRS off your back.  Perhaps you failed to file your taxes a few years ago and the IRS never contacted you.  Well,
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If you are an American, whether rich or poor, famous or not, you have an obligation to pay your taxes!  Back taxes that are unpaid can come back to haunt you.  I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again!  It is never too late for file a tax return to settle your back taxes.   Failure to file your tax return is construed as a criminal act (even possibly a felony).  The IRS
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We all know that accepting bribes is not acceptable.  Call it what you may, “gifts and gratuities”, but we all know that a person with a governing position, like a mayor, who accepts gifts and gratuities is basically accepting a bribe.  When the bribe happens to be cash, or something of great cash value, it is still taxable.  But because it is a bribe, the mayor decides to evade taxes
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Thomas R. Kelley, of Salem, S.D., was originally indicted by a federal grand jury on Dec. 3, 2008, for filing a false income tax return, impeding the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and 16 counts of uttering fictitious obligations. A new superseding indictment added two counts of tax evasion and three counts of willful failure to file tax returns. If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison and a
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Arlan R. Turley, 60, of Gilbert, Arizona, was indicted on two counts of willful failure to file a tax return and 20 counts of willful failure to pay over taxes. Turley, a licensed dentist in Arizona, operated the East Valley Dental Service in Mesa, Ariz.
The indictment alleges that the charges for failure to file are the result of Turley’s non-filing of his 2002 and 2003 income tax returns. In fact,
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Thomas E. Cowan Jr., 64, of Elizabethton, Tennessee, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on one count of income tax evasion and three counts of failure to file income tax returns.
According to the indictment, Cowan, an attorney, attempted to evade a large part of the income and self-employment taxes, penalties and interest due to the United States for tax years 1993 to 1997. The indictment alleges that Cowan
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Architect Jeffrey Alan Carrithers, of Portland, Ore., pleaded guilty to one count of income tax evasion for the year 2000.
According to the plea, Carrithers received substantial taxable income in 2000 and owed a substantial amount of tax. He willfully attempted to evade taxes, however, by concealing his true taxable income from the IRS and by failing to pay the tax due and owing.

Thomas B. Parker, 64, and his wife Margaret A. Parker, 65, were each found guilty of seven counts of filing false tax returns and five counts of failure to file a tax return following a two-day jury trial. The couple caused a potential tax loss to the government of $106,564.
According to court records, the Parkers filed amended U.S. Individual Income Tax Returns for 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 and
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Robert A. Huff was sentenced to six months in prison, to be followed by one year of supervised release, for failing to file a 2001 tax return. Huff in 2001 and 2002 was self-employed in various real estate business activities in the greater Cleveland, Ohio, area. In his written plea agreement, Huff acknowledged that he had gross receipts of approximately $283,142 in 2001 and $405,064 in 2002 and that he
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