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CEO Creates Tax Matrix He Can’t Get Out Of
In 2015 and 2016 Jason Cory was the manager of an information-based company in New York. From 2017 to 2019 he was the CEO of another company in Florida. While working at each of these companies, Cory submitted invoices for consulting services that were never performed, from a company named Gambit Ma
Gambler Saves $60k in IRS Tax, Penalties & Interest
If you are a gambler, this success story is for you! Gambler Saves $60k in IRS Tax, Penalties & Interest When this client retained our firm, he owed the IRS $61, 316.21. When we were finished, he owed the IRS only $820.65 thanks to our negotiations and the subsequent waiving of tax, penalties and in
Yale Employee Headed to the Big House for Stealing $40 Million Worth of Electronics!
Yale Employee Headed to the Big House for Stealing $40 Million Worth of Electronics! A former Yale Medical School employee was sentenced to nine years in prison for stealing 40 million dollars in electronics. Jamie Petrone was the Director of Finance and Administration for the Department of Emergenc
IRS Catches Engineer Engineering a Sham Trust
Tax Jam: Engineer Caught by IRS Engineering a Sham Trust Don't be shocked by the power the IRS has. McCauley Law Offices can help you out of your Tax Jam. Just contact us for a totally FREE consultation today! John Everson, owner of an electrical engineering business, was found guilty of tax evasion
Newark, DE Man Secures OIC
A great win for another McCauley Law Client with this OIC! This client came to us owing $62,327 to the IRS. Our team was able to negotiate and Offer in Compromise whereby the client would owe just $4131. That is a 93% "discount" leaving the client to pay just 7% of the original amount owed.
Tax Jam: Tax Preparer Preps for Prison
Tax Jam: Tax Preparer Preps for Prison McCauley Law Offices can help you out of your Tax Jam. Give us a call for a FREE consultation to get started! When the IRS knocks, let us answer. We can help you and you will breathe easier with our team on your side. Today's story is about […]
Tax Jam: Landscaper Digs Himself a Hole
Tax Jam: Landscaper Digs Himself a Hole & Ends Up in the "Yard" McCauley Law Offices can help you out of your Tax Jam, just give us a call for a FREE consultation to get started! When the IRS knocks, let us answer. Don't let the let your issue with the IRS pile up on […]
Do You Owe Money to the IRS But Can’t Pay? Try This.
Do you owe back taxes and can’t afford to make any payments? Then it may be time for a special tax status known as currently not collectible. This means that your debt is still considered valid even though there's no chance at recovery right now. When you’re approved for currently not collectible st
IRS Celebrity Terror Tale: Charlie Sheen
A Round of Applause for Charlie Sheen’s Tax Team May Be in Order This summer, actor Charlie Sheen announced that he’d beaten the IRS at its own game, marking this our first terror tale where the IRS wasn't #WINNING. The agency grudgingly agreed to reduce his back tax debt from $7 million to $3.3 mil
Accountant Embezzles from the Firefighters Pension and Gets Smoked
Wayne Triche was sentenced to 41 months in prison for tax fraud and wire fraud for embezzling $937,658.77 from the New Orleans Firefighters Pension and Relief Fund. In 2003, Triche and his business partner were given five million dollars from the Fund to manage and invest in life insurance policies.
$501k Tax Assessment Reduced to $0 in Tax Court
The Good Doctor Was Not So Good About Filing Taxes
ER Physician Dr. Kevin Crandell was earning between $30,000 and $40,000 a month when he decided he no longer wanted to pay taxes and stopped filing returns in 2007. Crandell began filing taxes again in 2013, after he was contacted by the IRS, but spent years fighting the agency over the six years wh
IRS Puts Huge Dent in Couple’s Long Running Tax Scheme
The owners of a successful auto body shop in Baltimore were each sentenced to one year and one day in prison for tax fraud. Ercin and Lizette Kalender were also ordered to pay restitution to the IRS in the amount of $2,219,602. As part of their efforts to hide income from the IRS the Kalenders […]
$18,000 Tax Debt Settled for $100
The Family That Cheats Together Goes to the Big House Together
Owners of 3 New York area Dippin Donuts stores John and Helen Zourdos and their son Dimitrios were convicted of tax evasion and filing false tax returns. From 2012 to 2017 the family hid more than 4.5 million dollars in cash sales from the IRS by depositing the money into personal bank accounts, mak
Wonder What Alice was Thinking?
Alice Felder-Lucas was sentenced to more than three years in prison for filing a false tax return and theft of government funds. Felder-Lucas filed a tax return using false 1099 forms that claimed millions of dollars in income. She also listed millions of dollars in expenses. Although her return was
AUDIT ASSESSMENT REDUCED FROM $25,161 to $3,093
Scheming Bar Owner Ends Up Behind Bars
William Britt, a former Georgia city councilman, was sentenced to 33 months in prison for failing to report income from several bars he co-owned near university campuses. As part of the scheme, each bar was nominally owned by an individual, but in reality, all the bars were owned by a group of partn
Lord Have Mercy City Official Sentenced to 14 Years
Former pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Atlanta, and City of Atlanta Director of Human Services, Mitzi Bickers, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for accepting approximately $3 million in bribes, money laundering, and failing to disclose more than $600,000 in income on her tax return. Bickers
AUDIT RECONSIDERATION REDUCED TAX BY $80,562 – FULL ABATEMENT OF AUDIT PENALTY $18,386
The IRS can be quite unforgiving when auditing a taxpayer, especially in instances in which the taxpayer is unable to fully substantiate their business expenses. We often receive calls from taxpayers who did not receive zealous advocacy through their tax preparer and ultimately end up owing the IR
Con Artist is Placed in a Different Kind of Box
Glen Zinszer, founder of the self-proclaimed "Facebook for Business" Brazzlebox, was sentenced to 51 months in prison for committing wire fraud and filing false tax returns. For years, Zinszer lied to investors about how well Brazzlebox was doing by inflating the company’s user numbers, having emplo
Namaste in Prison
The owners of the Yoga to the People chain were stealing tax money from We the People, and were arressted for failing to file tax returns from 2013-2020. Gregory Gumucio, Michael Anderson, and Haven Soliman started the donation based yoga studio in Manhattan in 2006, and ultimately had 20 locations
Quarryville, PA Women Settled Tax Debt with the IRS for Just Six Cents on the Dollar!
Stockbroker Invests in Himself Using Other People’s Money
Former stockbroker Robert Cirillo was sentenced to 78 months in prison for filing false tax returns and running a securities fraud scheme. Cirillo targeted low-income Hispanic victims via false promises of high returns from construction loans. Cirillo never invested any of the money, and instead use
Accountant Gets 3 years in Prison For Failing to Pay Over $1 Million in Payroll Taxes
Carrie Leigh Long, the accountant for a company that makes luxury limousines and buses, was sentenced for embezzling $362,000 and failing to pay over more than $1 million in payroll and personal taxes. Long stole a total of 198 times between 2016 and 2019, using a stock of pre-signed checks to pay h
IRS Celebrity Terror Tale: Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino
Michael Sorrentino, better known as "The Situation," is an American reality television personality who skyrocketed to fame after appearing on MTV's hit show Jersey Shore from 2009 through 2012. In 2010 alone Sorrentino made a whopping $5 million, the second highest of any other reality star after th
Office Manager Gets 33 Month Prison Term for Padding Her Bank Account
The office manager and bookkeeper for nonprofit CENTRO San Antonio, Alicia Henderson, was sentenced to 33 months in prison for embezzlement and tax fraud. CENTRO San Antonio connects private developers with local government to improve downtown San Antonio. From 2014 to 2017 Henderson wrote 118 check
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