Following an IRS criminal investigation, a federal grand jury indicted Fawzi Mahmoud Swalim, a former resident of San Francisco, with filing false tax returns from 2000 to 2002. According to the indictment, Swalim, 53, is alleged to have filed false tax returns from 2000 to 2002, which underreported gross receipts of his retail grocery business. He faces up to three years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

The president of California-based Allied Telecom was indicted on two counts of evading her federal income taxes for the years 2000 and 2001.The 39-year-old Diana Hojsak — aka Diana Lu or Jing Jing Lu — was also charged with two counts of filing false federal income tax returns for her wholly owned corporation, Allied Telecom International Inc.
Hojsak is charged with diverting commission payments payable to Allied Telecom to her personal
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Scott F. Creasia, 40, of Tucson, was sentenced to 10 months in prison and ordered to serve one year of supervised release and pay $331,932 in restitution. Following a week-long trial, Creasia was convicted on charges of filing false federal income tax returns.According to the evidence, Creasia became associated with Lynden Bridges, a member of Anderson’s Ark and Associates, in 1998 and used sham partnerships to conceal the amount of
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The U.S. District Court in Portland, Ore., sentenced a former Oregon chemical company executive to 18 months in prison and ordered him pay a $50,000 criminal fine following his conviction on two counts of filing false U.S. federal income tax returns.The executive was also ordered to pay restitution for all taxes due, which will be determined by the Internal Revenue Service.
Trevor Smith, the former vice president of sales for Raisio
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A North Brunswick, N.J., man was arrested on charges of failing to file tax returns and filing false tax returns.The five-count indictment charges Mazen Mokhtar, 38, with two counts of failing to file business tax returns and three counts of filing false personal tax returns. According to the indictment, Mokhtar was the president and sole shareholder of Mindcraft, a computer consulting and technology company.
The indictment alleges that for the tax
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Charles Wayne Willard Sr., 54, of Alexander City, Ala., was sentenced to 24 months in prison and fined $25,000 for tax evasion.
According to court records, Willard filed a joint tax return for calendar year 2002 which he knew to be false and fraudulent. In particular, the return stated that Willard’s joint taxable income was $38,436 when their true income was
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Deanna Ellen Dick, of Houston, Texas, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for tax charges.
Dick pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting others and being aided and abetted by others to file 28 electronically prepared false 2001 tax returns. Some of the returns were filed in the names of deceased people and others in the names of living people,
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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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Jamal Sobhi Lashin, 49, of Scottsdale, Ariz., was sentenced to 12 months in prison after pleading guilty in December to one count of filing a false income tax return.
The co-owner of liquor stores, Lashin admitted that he did not accurately report his tax due for the tax years 2001 and 2002. Lashin admitted that he understated his income and falsified
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James C. Platts, a prominent builder in Pennsylvania, has a new challenge: demolishing a five-count tax evasion indictment.
According to the indictment, Platts submitted a false and fraudulent individual income tax return for the calendar year 1999, which substantially underreported his income and resulting tax liability. Additionally, Platts allegedly attempted to evade paying federal income taxes and FICA taxes withheld from employees
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Matthew Okonkwo, 59, a Nigerian national who had been residing in Dothan, Ala., was sentenced to 24 months in prison on one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and eleven counts of aiding in the preparation of fraudulent income tax returns.
Upon completion of his sentence, Okonkwo will face deportation proceedings.
Convicted by a jury on Nov. 1, 2006, Okonkwo owned Eagle
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