A California businessman pleaded guilty to not reporting $15 million in capital gains from the sale of real estate.
Luke D. Brugnara was in the business of acquiring and renting real estate in the San Francisco area and elsewhere. In February 1998, the IRS requested copies of Brugnara’s individual income tax returns for the years 1990 to 1996, in addition to copies of tax returns for Brugnara Corporation. Brugnara returned those
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A Florida businessman was sentenced 22 years and six months in federal prison for, among other charges, for conspiring to commit wire fraud, obstructing an agency proceeding and impeding the IRS, and failing to remit payroll taxes.
Frank L. Amodeo, 48, of Orlando, pleaded guilty and was also ordered to forfeit more than $1 million seized from various accounts, three homes, several luxury automobiles, commercial real estate, a Lear Jet and
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The former chief executive of a Nevada sports energy drink company has been indicted on tax evasion charges.
Xyience CEO Russell Pike, of Las Vegas, is charged with one count of tax evasion for failing to file a federal individual income tax return for 2006 and failing to pay taxes on more than $6.9 million in income he earned in 2006. Pike is also charged with using nominees and a forward-dated
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A revenue agent with the Internal Revenue Service has agreed to plead guilty to a federal tax fraud charge for filing a personal income tax return that claimed he suffered a loss in a real estate transaction when in fact he realized a substantial profit.
In a plea agreement, Jim H. Liu, 43, of Diamond Bar, Calif., agreed to plead guilty to subscribing to a false tax return — a charge
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President Obama announced an overhaul of the tax code to “detect and pursue” U.S tax evaders and go after their offshore tax shelters.
The President’s two-part plan calls for nearly 800 new IRS agents to enforce the U.S. tax code – and help wage war against multi-national corps and their offshore tax havens.
Under the current tax code, companies with operations overseas pay U.S. taxes only if they bring the profits back
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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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