Guilty Plea in Tax Shelter Case
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The governmentâs criminal case against questionable tax shelters took a major step forward today when one defendant, David Amir Makov, an investment adviser, entered a guilty plea.
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NORFOLK - A government contractor pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to sabotaging Navy computers that track locations of subs and ships.   Richard F. Sylvestre, 43, of Boylston, Mass., pleaded guilty before a U.S. magistrate to one count of damaging protected computers.
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Two employees at insurance company Zurich American pleaded guilty on Tuesday to misdemeanors related to New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer&#39;s investigation of bid-rigging in the insurance market, according to a New York
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Robert Durst, the millionaire New York real estate heir acquitted last year of murdering a neighbor in Texas, pleaded guilty to federal gun charges in exchange for a sentence of up to nine months.
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An Iraqi-American pleads guilty to four charges connected to the UN oil-for-food scandal.
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A Southern California fence-building company and two executives have agreed to plead guilty and serve jail time for knowingly hiring illegal immigrants and pay a combined penalty of $5 million, two people close to the case said Thursday.
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Wesley Snipes was acquitted of tax fraud but was convicted of failure to file his taxes, in a Florida courtroom Friday.   Snipes, 45, who was convicted of three misdemeanor counts of failing to file a tax return, faces up to three years in federal pr...
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The tax man is trying to give away more than $220,000 in San Mateo County -- and some of it might be yours. More than 230 county residents have not collected their federal
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So long, Dan George Jr. The businessman from Rockport was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison last week for the overly aggressive tax strategy employed by his company. He paid no taxes and, in fact, filed no returns at all for four years, according to prosecutors.
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Actually, Haskins isn&#39;t alone. The Internal Revenue Service says it is looking for 329 Nebraskans who have more than $174,000 in unclaimed federal tax refunds coming their way.
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Federal prosecutors contend a businessman known for pledging money to help track down criminals has pocketed $3.2 million of income over the past several years while not paying federal taxes since 2000.
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BRENTWOOD, N.H. - The former Citizen of the Year in Derry pleaded guilty Friday to stealing more than $250,000 from the nonprofit agency she led. Police accused former Derry Economic Development Corporation chief Cheryl Crawford, 58, of taking the money and gambling it away on the Internet.
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Three people have pleaded guilty to charges related to spam e-mail that promised U.S. victims millions of dollars from an estate and a lottery, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.In one scenario, the defendants sent e-mails purporting to be from an individual suffering from terminal throat cancer who needed assistance distributing approximately $55 million to charity, the DOJ said.The three defendants, two from Nigeria and one from Senegal, sent spam e-mail to thousands of potential victims, in which they falsely claimed to control millions of dollars located abroad, the DOJ said in a press release. The fraud victims lost $1.2 million by giving the defendants advance fees, the DOJ said.Pleading guilty in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York were Nnamdi Chizuba Anisiobi, whose aliases include Yellowman, Abdul Rahman, Michael Anderson, Edmund Walter, Nancy White, Jiggaman, and Namo, age 31, of Nigeria; Anthony Friday Ehis, also known as John J. Smith, Toni N. Amokwu, and Mr. T, age 34, of Senegal; and Kesandu Egwuonwu, also known as KeKe, Joey Martin Maxwell, David Mark, and Helmut Schkinger, age 35, of Nigeria.Anisiobi pled guilty to one count of conspiracy, eight counts of wire fraud, and one count of mail fraud. Ehis pled guilty to one count of conspiracy and five counts of wire fraud. Egwuonwu pled guilty to one count of conspiracy, three counts of wire fraud, and one count of mail fraud.The maximum penalty for mail and wire fraud is 20 years in prison. The conspiracy charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.A fourth defendant, Lenn Nwokeafor, fled to Nigeria and was subsequently arrested by the Nigerian Economic &amp; Financial Crimes Commission on July 27, 2006. He is being held by the Nigerian authorities pending extradition to the United States, the DOJ said.In the throat cancer scheme, the defendants offered to give a 20 percent commission to the victim, or a charity of his or her choice, in exchange for the victim&#39;s help. The defendants would send a variety of fraudulent documents, including a &quot;letter of authority&quot; or a &quot;certificate of deposit,&quot; making it appear that the promised funds were available, as well as pictures of an individual claiming to suffer from throat cancer, the DOJ said.Defendant Anisiobi allegedly telephoned victims, disguising his voice to give the impression that he was suffering from throat cancer.After obtaining their victims&#8217; trust, the defendants asked them to wire-transfer payment for a variety of advance fees for legal representation, taxes, and additional documentation. The victims then received nothing back, the DOJ said.In some cases, if the victims said they could not afford to pay the advance fees, the defendants would send them counterfeit checks, supposedly from a cancer patient, to cover those fees. Many victims deposited the checks and then drew on them to wire-transfer the advance fees. When the checks did not clear, the victims suffered substantial losses, the DOJ said.&quot;Online scam artists should be on notice that we will continue to work closely with our international partners to ensure that there are no safe geographic boundaries for committing these crimes,&quot; Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher of the DOJ&#39;s Criminal Division said in a statement.The investigation was initiated by Dutch law enforcement authorities, who notified the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, which opened its own investigation. The three who pled guilty were arrested in Amsterdam on Feb, 21, 2006.
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A major gubernatorial donor pleaded guilty Wednesday to tax violations and charges stemming from a witness tampering scheme in which he was accused of having a prostitute seduce his own brother-in-law.
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Former Rep. Frank Ballance pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge that he used a charitable foundation to bilk the government and funnel money to his law firm, church and family.
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A self-professed guru of offshore tax havens was sentenced to six months in prison Monday for conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service after prosecutors urged a
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Advocate tells Congress taxpayers should receive up to $1,000 in âapology paymentsâ if the Internal Revenue Service mishandles their case.