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Coked-Out, Brazen Car Dealership CFO Doing 63 Months in the Gray Bar Hotel!
Tamra Villareal and her ex-husband Robert have been sentenced to 63 months and 87 months in jail, respectively, for tax evasion and defrauding Tamra’s employer, Richardson Enterprises. The company owns car dealerships in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. As the CFO of the company, Tamra had access to
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readJun 15, 2021Tax Collector Becomes Tax Evader and Should Have Known Better!
Jeanne Bowser, the elected tax collector for Center Township in Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and filing false tax returns after she was caught embezzling funds. From 2011 to 2019 Bowser stole $1,028,183.81 in tax payments from both the township and the Central Valley School District.
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readJun 10, 2021Machinery Owner Reaps What He Sows and Owes The IRS $2,789,538 in Restitution and lands in Jail!
Palm Beach County, Florida resident, Dusko Bruer, who owned a company that bought US made agricultural machinery and parts, and sold them throughout the world, was sentenced to twenty-four months in prison, serve two years of supervised release and to pay approximately $2,789,538 in restitution to t
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readJun 8, 2021Your IRS Questions Answered Here…
Question: I’ve been getting threatening letters from the IRS saying I owe them $43,000 for 2017 – 2019. This is beginning to affect other aspects of my life as well. What should I do? Answer: There are many options available to you today to resolve this. However, you need to take the first step […
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readMay 26, 2021Man Named Boggus Files Bogus Tax Returns
Glenn Edwards Boggus was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay $495,368 in restitution to the IRS for filing false tax returns. In 2017 Boggus filed a fraudulent income tax return that claimed a 1.14 million dollar tax refund. He submitted a false W-2 reporting $5,647,888 in wages a
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readMay 20, 2021AVVO
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Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readMay 19, 2021Creative Bookkeeper Gets Caught Double-Dipping!
An accountant in West Virginia, Misty Brotherton-Tanner, pleaded guilty to wire fraud, money laundering and tax evasion for defrauding several businesses that hired her to do their bookkeeping. Brotherton-Tanner provided accounting services to several businesses and from 2014 until 2020 she create
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readMay 18, 2021Timber Company Employee Axed After Embezzling Millions!
Susan Tranberg, who worked for the Weyerhauser Company for more than 40 years, was sentenced to 57 months in prison for tax evasion, wire fraud and defrauding her employer of more than 4.5 million dollars. Tranberg’s scheming began in 2004 when she created a fake timber contract between the compan
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readMay 13, 2021Pizzeria Owner Skims More Than Cheese From Business
The owner of Muncheez Pizzeria in Wisconsin has been charged with four counts of filing false tax returns for skimming approximately $800,000 from his business receipts between 2012 and 2016. Paul Vanderlinden took the cash, deposited it in his personal bank accounts and failed to report or pay ta
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readMay 11, 2021Tax Evader Should Have Used Warning System to Save Herself IRS Troubles
Lynda Zimmermann pleaded guilty to one count of filing a false tax return and agreed to pay $1,088,649.22 to the IRS prior to sentencing. Zimmermann and her husband owned a company in Tucson that provided lightning detection and warning systems to golf courses, parks and mines around the world. In
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readMay 6, 2021Shoe Drops on Former CFO Who Embezzles $27 Million; Faces 33 Years in Prison!
The former CFO of Alden Shoe Company, Richard Hajjar, pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return, wire fraud and unlawful monetary transactions in connection with embezzling more than 27 million dollars from the company. From 2011 to 2019, when he was fired from the company, Hajjar stole 3.7 mill
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readMay 4, 2021Your IRS Questions Answered Here…
Question: I’ve been getting notices from the IRS saying I owe them for back taxes. This is stressing me out and starting to affect other areas of my life. What should I do? Answer: Owing money to the IRS or State can be intimidating and throw your life out of whack but ignoring these […]
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readApr 28, 2021Swiss Bank’s Case Full of Holes
The Department of Justice Tax Division charged Switzerland’s oldest bank, Rahn+Bodmer Co, with conspiring to help US account holders evade their US tax obligations, file false tax returns, and otherwise defraud the IRS. The Swiss bank admitted in court that between 2004 and 2012 they held undeclared
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readApr 22, 2021Produce CEO Harvests Big Bounty Illegally for Himself
The former President and CEO of the Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market, Caesar DiCrecchio, was charged with wire fraud, identity theft, money laundering and tax evasion for embezzling over 7.8 million dollars. DiCrecchio used company funds to pay 1.9 million dollars in rent for his New Jersey sho
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readApr 20, 2021Filing False Tax Returns with Stolen IDs Gets Woman Prison ID
Marien Torres-Acevedo was sentenced to 75 months in prison for her part in a scheme that included stealing identities and filing false tax returns with the stolen IDs. From January 2015 to July 2016 Torres-Acevedo and two co-conspirators filed dozens of false tax returns that she admitted generated
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readApr 15, 2021Good Grief Charlie Brown! Project Linus President Embezzles $400k from Charity
The former President of Project Linus, a nonprofit that provides handmade blankets for children who are seriously ill, has been sentenced to prison for wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering and tax evasion as a result of stealing more than $400,000 from the organization. Carol Babbitt was the org
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readApr 13, 2021That’s a Lot of Tacos – Owner of Mexican Restaurant Files False Tax Returns, Hides $2.5 Million in Sales
Juan Hurtado, the owner of five Pepe’s Mexican restaurant franchises in Chicago, pleaded guilty to filing false tax returns and underreporting his income by approximately 2.5 million dollars. From 2016 to 2018 Hurtado filed 11 false tax returns with the IRS. He also admitted to giving his accountant
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readApr 8, 2021Trail of Blood Leads to Garbage Bags Stashed with Cash
A couple in Pennsylvania was sentenced to prison after police discovered more than $800,000 in cash in their home. Matthew and Kim Forney’s troubles began when their daughter’s boyfriend shot them in a domestic dispute. After the police arrived at the scene they discovered bloody footprints leading
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readApr 6, 2021Nike Employee Just Did It and Then Got Caught
Errol Andam, a former Nike marketing manager, has been charged with wire fraud, money laundering and making false statements on a tax return. Andam managed the design, build-out and operation of pop-up retail venues for Nike, and in 2016 recruited a childhood friend to establish a company to design
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readMar 31, 2021The Ace at the Bank Caused Schemer’s Fall From Grace
Taressa Hightower, of Georgia, pleaded guilty to two counts of filing false tax returns in connection with bogus charitable organizations. Between 2010 and 2015 Hightower received more than $650,000 from a bank in Boston for two non-profit organizations that claimed to serve underprivileged children
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readMar 29, 2021Embezzling Comptroller Gets Shipped to Prison
Between 2007 and 2019 the comptroller for Gulf-Dan Shipping, Deepak Jagtani, embezzled more than $7,000,000 dollars from the company. Jagtani controlled payroll for Gulf-Dan and used his access to pay himself excessive salaries and benefits. He also admitted to filing false tax returns from 2014 to
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readMar 25, 2021Multi-Level Marketer Commits Multi-Levels of Fraud
Theresa Gregory, of Ohio, has been sentenced to 36 months in prison, and her daughter, Tera Gore, has been sentenced to six months in prison for evading the assessment and payment of taxes. Between 2008 and 2017 Gregory earned, $17,498,680 as a distributor for multi-level marketing companies, but fa
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readMar 23, 2021Slippery Slope for Petroleum Field Supervisor Caught in Hot Oil
David West, a 30-year employee of Petco Petroleum in Illinois, stole over $400,000 from the oil and gas company between 2013 and 2017. West formed a shell company, Flash Electric Services, through which he submitted invoices totaling $129,038 to Petco for services that were never rendered. He also s
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readMar 18, 2021Healthcare Businessman Prescribes Himself a Yacht and Maserati
Richard Rief, a St. Louis businessman, was indicted on 14 counts of failure to collect and pay over employment taxes and two counts of failure to file or pay tax. Rief owned and operated Med Plus Staffing, a healthcare staffing business, and Rief Healthcare, a hospice care company. He reported emplo
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readMar 16, 2021How to Amend a Tax Return for a Prior Year
Tax returns can often be filed with incomplete or incorrect information, leading you to more tax trouble than you bargained for. If you filed early, you might have overlooked income from a temporary job or a side gig, only to get a 1099 or late W2 for the income earned. Other filers may eventually r
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•3 min readMar 5, 2021The Procrastinator's Guide to Surviving Tax Day
If you are a procrastinator, tax filing season is probably the worst time of year. With deadlines looming, filling out all those complicated forms and making sense of an increasingly complex tax code that changes almost every year can seem like an overwhelming task. But no matter how long you put it
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•4 min readMar 3, 2021Your IRS Questions Answered Here…
Question: I’ve been getting letters from the IRS saying I owe back taxes for 2017 – 2019. This is taking over my personal life and don’t know where to start. What should I do? Answer: Owing money to the IRS or State can be intimidating and throw your life out of balance but ignoring these […]
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