A San Antonio, Texas, woman was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $1.5 million in restitution to the IRS for her role in a fraudulent tax scheme.
In addition to the prison term, United States District Judge Fred Biery ordered that Terrell Diamond be placed under supervised release for a period of three years after completing her prison term.
According to court records, Diamond, along with her
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Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, Obama’s pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services, did not pay $7,040 in taxes between 2005 and 2007. She paid the back taxes and penalty after they were identified.
In addition to Sebelius, five other Obama administration nominees have come under fire for unpaid taxes including Tom Daschle and Timothy F. Geithner. Labor secretary Hilda L. Solis  had to answer questions about $6,400 in
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A financial services consultant based in Memphis pleaded guilty in New York to conspiracy to defraud the IRS in connection with tax shelters marketed by the accounting firm Ernst & Young.
According to the information filed in Manhattan federal court and statements made during the guilty plea, 46-year-old Charles Bolton, from 1998 to 2002, was involved with an E&Y group, known initially as “VIPER” for “Value Ideas Produce Extraordinary Results,” and
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A Texas woman faces up to three years in prison after pleading guilty to tax charges.
Donna J. Nelson, of Sulphur Springs, Texas, pleaded guilty to false income tax reporting. According to information presented in court, Nelson admitted to understating her 2006 income by $136,100 on her Form 1040 U.S. Income Tax return. Other court documents also showed she had similarly underreported earnings for tax years 2003 through 2007, totaling $479,781.36.�
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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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An Ohio physician has been charged with trying to conceal more than $950,000 in income. A federal grand jury indicted Dr. Dominic Joseph Maga, 60, of Dayton, charging him with tax evasion and willful failure to file income tax returns on his taxable income of more than $220,000 per year for the past four years.
Maga is an emergency room doctor employed at Grandview Medical Center and Southview Hospital, both located
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A former Wayne, N.J., resident who operated a mortgage and real estate business pleaded guilty to tax evasion, admitting he failed to report to the IRS nearly $836,500 of income — a portion of which represented proceeds from fraudulent mortgage transactions.
Russell Mainardi, 51, of Hyland Mills, N.Y., admitted he permitted mortgage loans to be made to borrowers based on false information submitted to the banks. He then directed commissions and
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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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Have you been naughty or nice? Uncle Sam wants to know — and he’s doing a lot to find out!
By Michael Rozbruch
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For U.S. taxpayers cheating here and there — or maybe just about everywhere — on their taxes, this news should send a chill up the spine.
Federal prosecutors in Miami have indicted not Joe Six-Pack for tax evasion — but Joe Six-Pack’s boss’ boss’ boss.
Raoul Weil, a senior executive of
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The  trial date has been set for the “Dancing with the Stars” indy race car driver who was indicted last month on tax evasion charges involving “an offshore Panamanian shell corporation Seven Promotions to conceal and disguise the true and correct amount of Helio Castroneves’ income from the Internal Revenue Service.”
The Associated Press reports:
Race car driver Helio Castroneves will stand trial in March in Miami federal court on tax evasion
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A FedEx pilot, charged with six counts of income tax evasion, pleaded guilty to one of those counts.
According to the indictment, Michael D. Mason, 51, of Cordova, Tenn., failed to file income tax returns for calendar years 2000 to 2004. Additionally, the indictment alleges that Mason failed to pay the IRS income tax due and owing and concealed or attempted to conceal his true and correct income from the IRS.
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A federal grand jury returned two separate indictments charging two Florida businessmen with various income tax fraud charges.The two defendants are James T. Lovern, 37, a resident of St. Petersburg, Fla.; and Leo J. Corrigan IV, 38, also a resident of St. Petersburg, Fla.According to the allegations in the two indictments, Lovern and Corrigan co-owned and operated various businesses in Pinellas County between 2001 and 2004.The indictment filed against Lovern
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Michael W. Slayton, 49, of Tecumseh, Kan., was sentenced to one year in prison.  The former director of operations of Designs 4 Life, a nonprofit created to assist families requiring in-home care, pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion.
From 1999 to 2004, he embezzled $238,097 from Designs 4 Life. He wrote 138 checks to himself and fraudulently avoided paying a total of $44,478 in taxes.
Tax Fraud is not good
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Some people are forced to do the unthinkable, for instance, Paul Hansen, 57, of Apple Valley, Calif. shot his son in an attempt to develop a “duress” defense after IRS investigators uncovered a tax fraud scheme.
Hansen had a guilty conscience because he filed false claims with the IRS that totaled approximately $629,000 in just seven months in 2002. Additionally, Hansen admitted to engaging in a second scheme in 2005 in
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Nicolas Cage just won a deal with the Internal Revenue Service to pay $666,000 plus interest for improperly deducting $3.3 million in personal expenses from 2002 to 2004. Earlier this year, Cage contested a personal IRS bill for $814,000 in taxes, interest and penalties, while his Saturn Productions of Los Angeles company was stuck with a bill for $988,000.
While Cage’s settlement includes $99,000 for an accuracy related penalty, no penalties
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