bizjournals.com | 1/24/08 | $250,000 | supspect: Royal Adams | victim: IRS
A Wildwood man was sentenced to a year and a half in prison and ordered to pay more than $250,000 in restitution to the IRS Friday for filing false tax returns about his business.
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webcpa.com | 10/20/08 | $5,700,000 | suspect: Security Protection Inc. | victim : United States
Security guard company Superior Protection Inc. and four of its executives were indicted for failing to pay employment taxes and other charges.
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orlandosentinel.com | 9/22/08 | Rene Stutzman
Frank Amodeo, the Orlando financial wizard who built Mirabilis Ventures Inc. into a financial powerhouse, is to appear in federal court at 2 p.m. today and is expected to plead guilty to tax fraud. Amodeo, 48, is charged with cheating the Internal Revenue Service out of $182 million. It is one of the biggest employment tax-fraud cases in IRS history.
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smartpros.com | 9/18/08 | Associated Press
A California billionaire who pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return involving foreign banking accounts has filed a lawsuit alleging Swiss bank UBS AG duped him into skirting U.S. tax laws.
washingtonpost.com | 9/17/08 | Del Quentin Wilber
The woman who masterminded the biggest embezzlement in D.C. government history inherited a scam running in the city's tax office and relied on a culture of mismanagement and corruption so entrenched that she escaped notice for almost 20 years.
The woman who masterminded the biggest embezzlement in D.C. government history inherited a scam running in the city's tax office and relied on a culture of mismanagement and corruption so entrenched that she escaped notice for almost 20 years.Continue reading "D.C. Tax Scam Mastermind Expanded Existing Ploy" »
dailynews.com | 9/8/08 | Staff Writer
A Glendale man who allegedly illegally claimed a tax refund on racetrack losses and bilked customers at the Bank of America branch where he worked was scheduled to be arraigned today on federal tax and bank fraud charges.
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webcpa.com | 8/27/08 | Staff Writer
A self-proclaimed priest has been convicted of tax fraud after his accountant and girlfriend pleaded guilty.
washingtonpost.com | 8/14/08 | Del Quentin Wilbur
A former friend of the woman at the center of the D.C. tax scandal pleaded guilty yesterday to charges stemming from her participation in a scheme that authorities allege siphoned nearly $50 million from the District government.
webcpa.com | 7/23/08 | Staff Writer
Joe Francis, founder of the Girls Gone Wild video series, pleaded not guilty to two counts of federal tax evasion, saying he was being victimized by the Internal Revenue Service's whistleblower program.
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money.cnn.com | 7/16/08 | Associated Press
A former maker of clothes for the popular American Girl dolls who authorities say disguised personal expenses for a Lincoln Town Car as the cost for five used sewing machines has pleaded guilty to tax evasion.
examiner.com |7/07/08 | Associated Press
A one-time beauty shop owner and chauffeur is accused of making more than $1.5 million by helping with a scheme to steal millions of dollars from the District of Columbia through phony tax refunds, according to documents filed Monday in federal court.
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reuters.com | 6/30/08 | Christian Lowe and Connor Sweeney
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian prosecutors have brought new charges against jailed former oil businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky, his legal team said on Monday.
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upi.com | 6/28/08 | Staff Writer
An Israeli banker has pleaded guilty to a tax fraud conspiracy charge in Los Angeles and a New York rabbi is to follow suit, federal prosecutors said. Joseph Roth, 66, of Tel Aviv, who worked for United Mizrahi Bank, pleaded guilty Friday to the federal conspiracy charge, admitting he was part of a scheme to defraud the U.S. government out of millions of dollars in tax revenues by setting up secret bank accounts in Israel for bogus trusts, prosecutors said. Rabbi Moshe E. Zigelman, 60, of New York has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy at a hearing set for Tuesday. Under the deal announced Friday, Zigelman acknowledges his role in the decade-long scheme. The accounts involved "charitable contributions" to organizations set up under Spinka, an orthodox Jewish group that refunded most of the money back to "contributors," authorities said. The contributions to Spinka-related entities totaled $8.5 million in 2006 alone, of which $7.75 million was returned to contributors. The two defendants are among eight individuals -- including Naftali Tzi Weisz, the grand rabbi of Spinka -- and five charitable entities indicted last year. The remaining defendants face trial Sept. 9 and Roth is to be sentenced Oct.20.
theledger.com | 6/14/08 | Jessica Grescko
MIAMI | A prison psychiatric counselor convicted in a scheme to file false tax returns for inmates - netting more than more than $900,000 in rebates - was sentenced to five years behind bars by a federal court in Tampa on Friday.
washingtonpost.com | 6/12/08 | Staff Writer
Two restaurant operators accused of employing illegal immigrants and concealing $7.2 million of profit from their business pleaded guilty to federal money laundering charges yesterday.
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washingtonpost.com | 5/20/08 | Martin Weil
A woman who worked at fashionable stores in Tyons Corner pleaded guilty yesterday to a fraud charge, becoming the second person to enter a plea in the massive embezzlement scheme at the D.C. tax office, federal prosecutors said.
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webcpa.com | 4/22/08 | Staff Writer
Harry Willner, a former Internal Revenue Service agent, was sentenced last week to a year in jail for a tax fraud scheme. Prosecutors charged him with fraudulently attempting to sell to other taxpayers, and using on his own personal income tax returns, tax losses belonging to a separate company that he controlled.
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upi.com | 4/9/08 | Staff Writer
RIVERHEAD, N.Y., April 9 (UPI) -- A New York judge has ordered a woman to stay away from computers while awaiting trial for allegedly stealing $90,000 in a tax fraud operation.
sacbee.com | 4/7/08 | Denny Walsh
Five members of a prominent San Joaquin County family were arraigned Friday and have agreed to plead guilty to federal tax charges stemming from years of pocketing unreported cash proceeds from their fruit packing and exporting operation, one of California's largest.
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northplattebulletin.com | 4/5/08 | Frank Graham
The U.S. Department of Justice subpoenaed five North Platte doctors and three others to give depositions of their knowledge of a tax fraud scheme that allegedly took place here from 2002 to 2004.
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latimes.com | 3/2/08 | Jason Felch and Doug Smith
An alleged tax-fraud scheme involving donations of overvalued art to four local museums is part of a larger, unchecked problem with inflated art appraisals that has cost the federal government untold millions, a Times analysis has found. Each year, the Internal Revenue Service audits donations claimed on only a handful of the 100,000 or more tax returns that allow art donors to reap nearly $1 billion in tax write-offs. Half of the donations checked over the last 20 years had been appraised at nearly double their actual value.
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webcpa.com | 2/28/08 | Staff Writer
The Internal Revenue Service has made available records from one of its most famous legal cases of all time, the tax evasion prosecution of Chicago gangster Al Capone in 1931.
edition.cnn.com | 2/29/08 | Associated Press
Berlin, Germany (AP) -- A wide-ranging investigation of tax evasion by Germans stashing their money abroad has led to the recovery of about $41.2 million and has netted 163 people, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Speaking briefly to reporters in Bochum, Hans-Ulrich Krueck said that so far 91 people targeted in the investigation "have admitted to the facts," and had already made payments totaling 27.8 million euros. "At the moment, that sum is rising daily," Krueck said.
blogs.wsj.com | 2/19/08 | Robert Frank
There’s a juicy little scandal unfolding in in Liechtenstein — whose national slogan might as well be “Why Pay Taxes?”
According to several articles today, including this one in the Journal, a former employee of a Liechtenstein bank (apparently the nation’s largest bank, LGT) stole loads of data about wealthy clients who are using the country as an illegal tax shelter and sold the data to the German government for millions of dollars. Now the German tax authorities are making sweeps of the tony townhouses and villas of Munich, Hamburg and other locales, hunting rich Germans who may have ducked the tax man.
mercurynews.com | 2/6/08 | Associated Press
INGLEWOOD, Calif.—A former Internal Revenue Service officer working as a tax preparer in Inglewood has been arrested in connection with an alleged scheme to defraud the government by filing false tax returns.
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ap.google.com | 2/2/08 | TRAVIS REED
OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Action star Wesley Snipes was found not guilty of federal tax-fraud and conspiracy charges Friday, but was convicted on three misdemeanor counts of failing to file a tax return.
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webcpa.com | 1/29/08 | Staff Writer
Washington, D.C. - Three defendants, including two CPAs, whose trial was scheduled to begin in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, have pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States, said the Justice Department.
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