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Franklin Township, NJ
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NJ Con Man Who Swindled Elderly Out Of $2M Headed To Fed Pen
A confessed Somerset County con man is headed to federal prison for 6½ years for swindling elderly investors out of $2 million that he used, in part, to pay for his daughter’s college tuition and sorority fees. For nearly a decade, ex-financial advisor Daniel Rivera, 51, told primarily elderly investors that his Robbins Lane Properties was “staffed by experienced real estate professionals, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. Rivera promised a “guaranteed monthly income” thanks to a rate of return based on secure investments, she added. The truth, Honig said, was: “Robbins Lane had …
Lower Merion-Narberth, PA
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Philadelphia Tax Preparer From MontCo Charged With Filing Bogus Returns
The owner of a Philadelphia tax preparation business filed bogus returns for clients, a 29-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury charges. Eric Amaefuna, 65, of King of Prussia took a number of steps to defraud the IRS at American Financial Stewardship (AFS) in northeast Philadelphia from at least 2014 through 2016, the indictment says. These included claiming false or inflated employee business expenses, losses and miscellaneous deductions, as well as increasing the stated amount of state and local taxes paid, the indictment returned in Philadelphia says. Amaefuna's clients, in …
Jersey City, NJ
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Jersey Shore Bookie Admits Running Own ‘Pick Six’ Lottery, Cash Prizes Topped $100,000
A Jersey Shore bookmaker admitted in federal court on Tuesday that he operated his own lottery game in Hudson County using the numbers from the New Jersey Lottery Pick Six to award winners. Up to 8,000 participants at a time selected six numbers from 1 to 49 at $20 a pop, Edward O’Neill, 54, told a U.S. District Court judge in Newark. The sole winner of the illegal lottery was whoever matched all six numbers selected in the official Pick Six drawing. Prizes often exceeded $100,000, said O’Neill, of Beachwood, who skimmed a 10% vig off the total bets. Like bookies of days past, O’Neill per…
Pittsfield, MA
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Western Mass Business Owner Accused Of Scheme To Defraud State Of Sales Tax
A Western Massachusetts business owner has been indicted in an alleged scheme in which he sold software that allowed restaurants to delete cash sales from cash registers and keep meal taxes paid by customers. Hampden County resident Paul K. Backholm, age 53, of Westfield, was charged and arraigned on Friday, April 9, said Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey. The AG’s Office alleges from 2010 to 2015, Backholm, who owns a company that sells cash registers, sold sales suppression software to restaurants for cash that enabled the restaurants to delete cash sales, keep the meals tax t…
Massapequa, NY
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Nassau Business Owner Admits To $8M Tax Fraud
Two Long Island auto shops and their owner have been convicted of underreporting more than $8 million in taxable sales over the course of a decade, authorities said. New York Attorney General Letitia James announced on Friday, March 26 that Freeport resident Luis Crespo, the owner of Broadway Towing, Inc. and Broadway Auto & Towing, Inc. pleaded guilty to criminal tax fraud for failing to pay more than $700,000 in sales tax. Crespo, 53, also pleaded guilty to petit larceny and agreed to pay the state more than $900,000 in restitution. James said that between 2009 and 2018, a joint inve…
North Hunterdon, NJ
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Prosecutor: Former Warren County Municipal Tax Collector, 50, Stole Payments Totaling $824K
A Warren County woman admitted stealing more than $800,000 in payments while working as a municipal tax collector for three townships, authorities said. Rachellyn Mosher, 50, misappropriated a total of $824,000 from taxpayers in White, Harmony and Lopatcong Township between 2013 and 2018, Prosecutor James L. Pfeiffer said in a joint release. Mosher, of Lopatcong, pleaded guilty to official misconduct in Hunterdon County Superior Court Wednesday, Pfeiffer said. She is required as per a plea agreement to spend five years in state prison with a four-year mandatory minimum before the poss…
Allentown, PA
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Feds: Allentown Woman Gets 75 Years In Prison For Using Stolen IDs To File Taxes
An Allentown woman was sentenced to 75 years behind bars, and must pay $857,000 to the federal government for allegedly stealing victims' identities and using them to obtain significant tax refunds, authorities said. Marien Torres-Acevedo, 38, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the government between January 2015 to July 2016, according to Acting United States Attorney Bruce D. Brandler. Torres-Acevedo and her co-conspirators secured fraudulent U.S. Treasury checks and cashed them at various check-cashing businesses, including several in Pennsylvania, Brandler said. Torres-Aceved…
Worcester, MA
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Ex-House Ethics Committee Chairman Admits To Spending Campaign Money On Lavish Lifestyle
A heavily in-debt ex-Massachusetts state representative, who once served as chairman of the House Ethics Committee, has admitted to funding his lavish lifestyle with public money and fraudulent bank loans. On Wednesday, Feb. 24, former state representative David M. Nangle, 60, pleaded guilty in U.S. Senior District Court to 10 counts of wire fraud, 4 counts of bank fraud, 4 counts of making false statements to a bank, and 5 counts of filing false tax returns, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Massachusetts said. Nangle, a Democrat, represented Massachusetts’ 17th Middlesex District, which include…
Hackensack, NJ
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ALERT: Don't Let Sketchy Tax Preparer Rip You Off, IRS Warns
The IRS began accepting and processing 2020 tax year returns on Friday -- with a warning. Although most tax preparers deliver honest and professional service, “there’s a small number of dishonest preparers who set up shop during filing season to steal money and personal and financial information from clients,” said Michael Montanez, the special agent in charges of IRS Criminal Investigation’s Newark Field Office. Look no further than the results of some his squad’s year-round investigative work. The most recent example is Joseph Kenny Batts, a tax preparer in New Jersey who was sentence…
Newark, NJ
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NJ Tax Preparer Gets 5 Years In Fed Pen For $1.6M IRS Scam
A twice-convicted tax preparer who helped New Jersey clients scam the IRS out of $1.6 million is headed to federal prison for the next five years. Joseph Kenny Batts, 52, of Elkridge, MD became the third of five men sentenced for preparing bogus tax returns at Tax Pro’s and Tax Solutions & Associates in Essex and Union counties. Batts, who already had a federal tax fraud conviction on his record, was the only one of the group to go to trial. U.S. District Judge Michael A. Shipp convicted him of conspiracy to defraud the United States, as well as five counts of aiding in preparing fals…
Worcester, MA
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City Man Pleads Guilty To Temp Staffing Scheme
A former city resident has pled guilty to ripping off U.S. tax-payers through a cash-wage scam he ran at local temp staffing agencies. On Tuesday, Jan. 26, Julio Lopez, 43, of Los Angeles, but formerly of Worcester, pled guilty to two counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiring to defraud the United States, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Massachusetts said. According to court documents, Lopez worked for three Worcester-based employment agencies where he misrepresented the number of the companies’ employees as well as the wages earned by the employees. Those companies were Bay State (whic…
Bristol, PA
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Philadelphia Electrical Contractor Pleads Guilty To Tax Fraud -- Again
A Philadelphia based electrical contractor imprisoned for tax fraud in 2007 pleaded guilty Thursday to new charges of tax fraud and theft from employee benefit plans, authorities announced. Donald Dougherty, 54, who owns Dougherty Electric, Inc. as part of a plea deal agreed to pay $92,913 in taxes due to the Internal Revenue Service, arising from false business deductions for what were actually personal expenditures, First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams said. Dougherty also agreed to pay $266,000 in restitution to the International Brother…
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