Businessman Gambles with the IRS and Loses
A Florida businessman, Alejandro Gomez, pleaded guilty to tax evasion after causing the IRS a tax loss of over $545,000. Gomez ran Fleischmann’s Produce, a company that imported fresh herbs for wholesale distribution, and got in the habit of writing off gambling losses as company expenses. In 2014 Gomez lost $896,951 gambling, and in 2015 […]
You Steal, Cheat and Commit Tax Evasion? BINGO! Your Number’s Up
Linda Pylant, the office administrator for a trade organization in Maryland, has been indicted on charges of tax evasion, wire fraud, identity theft and social security fraud. From 2012 to 2020 Pylant was responsible for the organization’s bookkeeping, and in 2017 opened a bank account in her employer’s name that only she had access to. […]
Bogus Tax Deduction Gets Dentist Extracted from Society and Sent to Prison
Homayoun Zadeh, an associate professor of dentistry at USC, pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return in connection with the college admissions scandal. Zadeh paid $100,000 to a bogus charitable organization run by Rick Singer, the mastermind behind the admissions scandal, in order to secure his daughter’s acceptance to USC. He then deducted the […]