Multiple Businesses, Multiple States Multiple Prison Sentences
Vincent Celentano, the owner of several businesses in Florida and Michigan, has been indicted for tax evasion, employment tax fraud and other tax crimes. Celentano is accused of using more than $360,000 from his businesses’ bank accounts to pay for personal expenses, including credit card payments and fuel and sundry items for his yacht. That […]
At Loggerheads with the IRS
For more than 20 years, Denver resident, Lawrence Martin Birk, failed to pay federal income taxes. It wasn’t until the IRS began collection efforts that the owner of Terryall River Log Homes, which built and sold log homes, hired a tax firm to prepare eight years of returns. However, Birk left out a lot of […]
Unspeakable Lack of Vision
Robert Lawrence Gazdick, Jr., the owner of an audio-visual equipment rental business in Virginia pleaded guilty to tax fraud for failing to pay payroll taxes for his employees from 2013 to 2018. Gazdick deducted the taxes from his employees’ paychecks but failed to pay the funds to the IRS. In total he pocketed 5.35 million […]