Dr. Harshad Shah, of Cypress, CA was sentenced to 51 months in prison on charges of trying to bribe an Internal Revenue Service agent who was auditing his taxes.
Although Shah claimed entrapment and tried to get the charges dismissed, the Government had multiple recordings where Shah, without any inducement from the agent, continued to pressure the agent to accept the bribe despite the revenue agent’s reminders that his conduct was illegal.
The revenue agent eventually accepted the bribe of $30,000 who determined that Shah owed $410,000 in back taxes and turned the recordings into the Justice Department.
