Soccer Star Misses the Goal Ruled Offside by the IRS
A former Seattle college soccer star, Dion Earl, pleaded guilty to making false statements on a tax return. Earl used false documents to lie about his income, his mortgage deductions and the amount of money withheld by employers so he could claim tax refunds of more than 1.6 million dollars. On his 2012 Form 1040 […]
This Magnificent Seven is Going to Jail
Joseph Octave, owner of Kapital Financial Services in North Carolina, pleaded guilty to preparing and filing false tax returns. Six of Octave’s employees also pleaded guilty to the same crime. From 2014 to 2019 Octave and his employees falsified clients’ tax returns by claiming false deductions, earned income tax credits, business losses, and education credits […]
The Fruits of His Labor Earned Him an Indictment
Daniel Fruits has been charged with fraud by a federal grand jury after stealing more than 14 million dollars from his employer. In 2015 an investor founded Secure Transit, a trucking company in Indiana, and hired Fruits to run the business. During the next four years the owner of the company invested 14 million dollars […]