Posts Tagged ‘false tax return’

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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New Orleans Man Hit with Tax Fraud

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Gerald P. Mercadel, 46, of New Orleans, La., was charged in a five-count indictment with aiding and abetting the filing of false individual income tax returns.According to the indictment, from April 2001 to May 2002, Mercadel assisted taxpayers in preparing tax returns along with accompanying schedules, which misrepresented the taxpayers were entitled to certain deductions or income relating to fictitious businesses.
If convicted, Mercadel faces up to ten years in prison
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TEXAS MAN DID NOT REPORT GAINS

Monday, April 9th, 2007

Stephen Paul Glover, 54, formerly of Spring, Texas, entered a guilty plea to a charge that he filed a false 1999 income tax return and evaded paying thousands of dollars in income taxes on gains realized through the sale of stock received as payment for legal service.
Glover admitted he had filed false tax returns to avoid paying federal income taxes of approximately $145,715 over a two-year period.
Not only did Glover
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West Palm Politico Did Not Disclose Payment

Friday, April 6th, 2007

Former West Palm Beach City Commissioner James L. Exline pleaded guilty in West Palm Beach, Fla., to filing a false individual income tax return with the IRS for tax year 2004.
Through an information, the United States Attorney’s Office alleged Exline failed to report $50,000 in income paid to him by a Palm Beach County land developer. The payment was for past and future real estate commissions and for land-planning services
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ARIZ. MAN FACES THREE YEARS FOR BAD RETURN

Monday, February 12th, 2007

Robert N. Shearburn Sr., 65, of Glendale, Ariz., pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return. Shearburn admitted that on April 5, 2001, he admitted that he falsely reported his income as $58,806. In fact, for tax years 1999-2001, Shearburn stated that his underreported gross income was approximately $830,000, with a tax due and owing of $232,400. He faces up to
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PENN. MAN SENTENCED FOR GROSS EVASION

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

Andy Tran, 31, of Scranton, Penn., was sentenced to two years of probation for making and subscribing a false individual tax return. The first six months of Tran’s two-year term must be served in home confinement with an electronic monitoring device. Tran employed suspected illegal aliens, putting them to work in production-line jobs. Tran’s customers wrote checks payable to
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