Down for the Count
Rocky Tingler, owner of McWilliams Building & Construction in West Virginia, pleaded guilty to understating the gross sales on his 2015 tax return by more than $988,000. He also admitted that in the third quarter of 2014 he collected $790 in federal income tax from his employees when the amount should have been $25,706. Tingler […]
Stormy Outlook for Attorney Michael Avenatti
Michael Avenatti became a household name as the attorney representing former adult film star Stormy Daniels in her case against President Donald Trump. But Avenatti’s most recent notoriety is strictly of his own doing. During a California Bar Association disciplinary hearing over allegations that he scammed a client out of $840,000, IRS agents arrested Avenatti […]
A Very Bad Day in Court
New Jersey tax preparer Brian Day pleaded guilty to filing false tax returns and bank fraud in a scheme to misappropriate clients’ money and defraud the IRS. Day told his clients that they owed more money to the IRS than they actually did. He instructed them to write checks made out to the IRS […]