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On May 8, 2018, Chief Bankruptcy Judge Isicoff for the Southern District of Florida issued an opinion addressing the question: if a former debtor seeks damages or attorneys’ fees and costs from the IRS for violating the discharge injunction, is the former debtor first required to exhaust administrative remedies prior to seeking recourse from the […]

She pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $190,000 from her West Hartford employer over a period of several years. A Windsor woman was sentenced Tuesday to just over a year in prison for embezzling more than $190,000 from her former employer and failing to pay federal income taxes on the embezzled income. Rebecca Block, 43, […]

A Reno, Nevada attorney was sentenced today to 25 months in prison for filing false federal income tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman and U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada. Delmar Hardy was convicted, following a jury trial in September 2017, of filing false individual income tax […]

Did Not Report over $1 Million in Business Income A resident of Troy, Michigan, pleaded guilty today to filing a false tax return, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division. According to court documents, Mythi Nguyen co-owned Y & B Nail Supply, a nail salon wholesale business […]

Used Business Accounts to Evade Paying Their Income Tax Liability A Virginia husband and wife were each sentenced today for tax evasion and conspiring to structure currency transactions, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division. Business owner Jeffrey Dalton was sentenced to 27 months in prison, and […]

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dorian Wills, 52, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to tax evasion before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a […]

A  Salinas, California, resident pleaded guilty today to conspiring to file fraudulent claims for income tax refunds, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Alex G. Tse for the Northern District of California. According to documents and information provided to the court, during […]

Two former police officers of the Flint Police Department (FPD) pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan to conspiring to commit theft from an organization receiving federal funds, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division. According to documents filed with the […]

A federal grand jury for the District of Nevada has returned an indictment yesterday, charging a former Las Vegas, Nevada, realtor with tax evasion, corruptly endeavoring to obstruct the internal revenue laws, making a false statement to a bank and failure to file tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of […]

A federal grand jury sitting in Greenbelt, Maryland, returned an indictment, which was unseal today, charging a married couple with conspiracy to defraud the United States and four counts of filing false tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur […]