Tax crime doesn’t pay — coverage of tax fraud, evasion, and financial crime prosecutions, and what they mean for the rest of us.
A former employee of Lundy Law pleaded guilty this week to four counts of subscribing a false federal income tax return. He is accused of hiding hundreds of thousands of dollars in income from the IRS.
Thomas Ziff pleaded guilty to one count of filing a false tax return. As a CPA, he knew better, but claimed he was overwhelmed by personal circumstances and begged for leniency. Today, he learned his sentence.
A federal bankruptcy judge has found “clear and convincing evidence” that businessman and former Texas billionaire Sam Wyly and his now-deceased brother, Charles Wyly, committed tax fraud. The result could be a bill from Internal Revenue Service (IRS) totaling close to $1 billion.
Happy birthday, Willie Nelson! The country legend – who once found himself in massive trouble with the IRS – turns 83 this week. How did he pay off his tax debt? He made music, of course.
A former postal worker who was supposed to deliver the mail in a Pennsauken, New Jersey, neighborhood has admitted to stealing federal income tax refund checks worth more than $400,000.
A Pennsylvania man has been found guilty of stealing personal information and selling it to scammers to use to file false tax returns. He stole the information from his job – at a health clinic.
It was just a matter of time before the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) would begin to process the fallout from the illegal access of tax information using the “Get Transcript” tool. And, as predicted, that information was used to further identity theft-related tax fraud.
According to reports, a Brazilian court has found Barcelona forward Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior, known simply as Neymar, guilty of tax fraud for failing to report earnings from a number of lucrative contracts.
The Department of Justice has announced that Daniel Balson and Renee Balson, of Greensboro, North Carolina, have been charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and to commit bank fraud, one count of bank fraud and five counts of wire fraud. The devil is in the details.
Chaka Fattah Jr., the son of Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA), was sentenced today to five years in prison for fraud and tax charges.