The owner of Factory Direct Modular Homes in Brick, N.J., pleaded guilty to tax charges for under reporting the business’ income for tax years 2002 and 2003 by about $406,000.
Janice Pfefferkorn, 54, who also went by the name Janice Morton, pleaded guilty to a two-count Information charging her with two counts of filing a false federal tax return.
According to court records, as a broker for a modular home manufacture, Pfefferkorn
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The president of a Chicago government relations and economic development firm was charged with filing a false federal corporate income tax return for allegedly underreporting his firm’s taxable income.
Illinois Development Services Corporation president Anthony B. Bruno, 56, was charged in a single-count criminal information alleging he filed a federal corporate income tax return for Gray & Associates for calendar year 2001 which stated that Gray & Associates’ taxable income was
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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 Ohio gambler will spend the next 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion charges.
Paul E. Sabatino, of Streetboro, Ohio, who pleaded guilty to the charge, was also ordered to perform 150 hours of community service and continue treatment for gambling addiction.
From 2002 to 2005, Sabatino embezzled approximately $1.7 million from a client of the CPA firm where he worked as an accountant. During that period, Sabatino
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In Wilmington, N.C., four women were sentenced for their involvement in a tax fraud scheme.
Pamela D. Evans, 33, received 15 months in prison; Bertha Battle, 28, received 15 months in prison; Tasha Battle, 28, received 180 days of home confinement with electronic monitoring; and Gwendolyn P. Evans, 49, received one month in prison and up to 150 days of home confinement with electronic monitoring.
All four pleaded guilty to conspiring to
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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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Melvin Buckley, 77, of Gothenburg, Neb., was fined $30,000 and sentenced to five years of probation for filing a false income tax return for the year 2001. Buckley was charged with filing a false income tax return for 2001 by reporting sales of livestock from his ranch business which he reported to be $191,441 when, in fact, the sales were determined to be approximately $393,142.

I’ve blogged about ways to save on your taxes in 2008.  But is there anything you can do to trim last year’s IRS bill now that 2009 is here?
The following tax saving tips for 2008 include a second go at the economic stimulus rebates, new property tax deductions, and new personal loss casualty write offs.
If you are a new home owner, someone who missed out on the last round of
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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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Stephen R. Savage, 51, of Milford, Mass., pleaded guilty to three counts of income tax evasion. Prosecutors told the court government evidence showed Savage was the owner of a construction business when he subscribed to several services to hide his income and expenses from the IRS. Savage filed a false federal tax return for calendar year 2002 and failed to file tax returns for 2004 and 2005. He faces up
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Self-proclaimed priest Earl R. Wolfe was sentenced to 54 months in prison on charges of tax fraud and was ordered to pay $224,869 in restitution. In September, Wolfe was found guilty by a Fort Lauderdale jury of conspiring to defraud the United States and filing false tax returns.
According to court records, from 1999 to 2004, Wolfe reported $600 of income on tax returns he filed with the IRS. However, evidence
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A revenue agent with the Internal Revenue Service has been arrested in connection with a scheme to defraud the government by claiming he suffered a loss when he sold his real estate when, in fact, he realized a substantial profit.
Jim H. Liu, 42, of Diamond Bar, Calif., is an IRS revenue agent who conducts audits of taxpayers. He was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport. Liu was indicted by a
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Former Parsippany-Troy Hills (N.J.) Board of Education member John J. Montefusco Jr. was sentenced to three years of probation for willfully filing a false tax return, admitting that he failed to report approximately $159,000 in income on his 2003 federal tax return.
Montefusco pleaded guilty to one count of a three-count criminal information charging him with willfully subscribing to a false tax return.
At his plea hearing, Montefusco admitted that in or
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Sonia D. Cruz, 46, of Northampton, Mass., was sentenced to 24 months of in prison for filing tax returns. From April 2002 to January 2005, Cruz filed with the IRS a series of fraudulent income tax returns, in her name and in the name of others, seeking refunds to which she was not entitled. As a result, Cruz underreported her taxable income by approximately $50,850.
In addition, from 2002 through 2005,
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A New Orleans business owner was sentenced to 37 months in prison after failing to pay $5 million in employment taxes (or payroll taxes).  According to court records, Janice Gaudet Craig was the co-owner, Secretary, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of TCB Industries Inc., an offshore oilfield fabrication and services company which had a workforce ranging from 216 to 679 employees and located in Abbeville, La.
The IRS investigation revealed Craig
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