Posts Tagged ‘withholding taxes’

Michigan Man Gets 22 Mos. for Failing to Pay Taxes

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Richard Blanchard, 52, of Warren, Mich., was sentenced to 22 months in prison and ordered to pay $195,000 in restitution to the IRS.
In August 2007, a federal jury convicted Blanchard on 18 counts of failure to account for and pay over employee withholding taxes.
From 1997 to 2003, Blanchard operated R. Blanchard Construction Company, which provided excavation and snow removal services. He withheld $195,000 in taxes but failed to pay the
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Wesley Snipes Gets 3 Years in Prison for Not Filing Tax Returns

Friday, April 25th, 2008

The star of over 50 films including the “Blade” vampire trilogy has recently found himself playing a different role—the defendant in the most prominent tax prosecution in decades (since billionaire hotelier Leona Helmsley was convicted of tax fraud in 1989).
Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison yesterday for willfully failing to file tax returns. While he had argued for leniency, federal prosecutors sought the maximum penalty possible. In
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