by Michael Hogberg, EA | Jul 6, 2022 | Enforcement Updates
Wednesday, July 6, 2022 Claimed Fraudulent Deductions on Returns and Submitted Fabricated Documents to IRS A former IRS employee was sentenced to 13 months in prison today following a guilty plea in March in which he admitted to filing false tax returns and providing...
by Michael Hogberg, EA | Jul 1, 2022 | Enforcement Updates
Friday, July 1, 2022 Joseph Smith, 57, formerly of Fishkill, New York, was sentenced to three years and six months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $2,100,450 in restitution by U.S. District Court Judge Gerald J. Pappert for his scheme...
by Michael Hogberg, EA | Jun 30, 2022 | Enforcement Updates
Thursday, June 30, 2022 A Utah professional tax preparer pleaded guilty today to tax evasion, conspiring to defraud the United States and obstructing the IRS’s efforts to collect his personal tax debt. According to court documents, Sergio Sosa, of Orem, owned and...
by Michael Hogberg, EA | Jun 29, 2022 | Enforcement Updates
June 29, 2022 The owner of a commercial and residential paving business in Hanover was sentenced today for a tax evasion scheme in which he failed to report nearly $1.7 million in income. William E. Dyer was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Court Judge William G....
by Michael Hogberg, EA | Jun 24, 2022 | Enforcement Updates
Friday, June 24, 2022 In a second superseding indictment unsealed today, a federal grand jury in Cleveland, Ohio, charged Christos Karasarides Jr., of Canton, with tax evasion, filing false tax returns, witness tampering, falsifying records and five separate...
by Michael Hogberg, EA | Jun 24, 2022 | Enforcement Updates
Friday, June 24, 2022 A Brookville, New York, man pleaded guilty today to willfully failing to collect and pay over employment taxes to the IRS on behalf of the spa companies he owned and managed. According to court documents and statements made in court, Sung Soo...