Stony Point, NY
News
Area Tax Preparer Charged With Evasion, Filing Fraudulent Returns Area Tax Preparer Charged With Evasion, Filing Fraudulent Returns
Area Tax Preparer Charged With Evasion, Filing Fraudulent Returns A Hudson Valley tax preparer has been charged in an 84-count indictment for a long-running scheme where his company assisted in the preparation of false and fraudulent tax returns. Eversley Barrett, the owner of Eversley Tax in New Windsor, surrendered himself into custody at White Plains Federal Court on Thursday, April 11, where he was charged with 83 counts of aiding and assisting the preparation of fraudulent U.S. tax returns and one count of attempting to evade or defeat taxes. According to the indictment, from 2012 through 2016, Barrett’s company prepared and submitted approximately 7…

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by Zak Failla
Teaneck, NJ
Police & Fire
Teaneck Preacher Admits Stealing $5.3M From Black Nationalist Hate Group Teaneck Preacher Admits Stealing $5.3M From Black Nationalist Hate Group
Teaneck Preacher Admits Stealing $5.3M From Black Nationalist Hate Group A Teaneck preacher who led a religious hate group admitted in federal court in Newark on Wednesday that he stole what prosecutors said was more than $5.3 million from the organization over nearly a decade to pay for luxury cars, lavish vacations and private school for his children. As part of a plea deal with the government, Lincoln Warrington, 48, admitted pocketing the money from his Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ (ICGJC) through a dummy entertainment company that he created with Jermaine Grant, 43, of Burlington Township. Grant, the organization's treasurer, admitted conspiring …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fairfield, CT
News
CT Business Owner Admits To Filing False Tax Returns Of Nearly $300K CT Business Owner Admits To Filing False Tax Returns Of Nearly $300K
CT Business Owner Admits To Filing False Tax Returns Of Nearly $300K A Connecticut businessman has admitted to falsifying his tax returns to the tune of nearly $300,000, U.S. Attorney John Durham announced this week. Town of Durham resident William Scalzi, the owner of Transportation General in West Haven, pleaded guilty on Monday to one count of subscribing a false tax return after understating his taxes for several years. According to the U.S. Attorney, Scalzi, 61, understated his taxable income by running personal expenses through his company.   Scalzi admitted to using his company’s credit cards to pay for numerous personal expenses, which wer…

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by Zak Failla
Hackensack, NJ
Lifestyle
Fans Are Sending 'The Situation' Letters In Prison (And You Can Too) Fans Are Sending 'The Situation' Letters In Prison (And You Can Too)
Fans Are Sending 'The Situation' Letters In Prison (And You Can Too) Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino reported to federal prison on Tuesday and according to his wife, he's doing great. The "Jersey Shore" star, 36, shared his mailing address at New York's Federal Correction Institute in Otisville -- where he'll be for his eight-month stint for tax fraud -- encouraging fans to send in letters. “Hi Everyone, it’s Lauren. Mike would like to thank all of his fans worldwide for the unbelievable outpouring of love & support," Lauren Sorrentino tweeted on her husband's account. "We speak everyday & he’s doing great. He’s received thousands of letters, he wo…

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by Cecilia Levine
Norwalk, CT
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Tax Preparer Indicted For Filing False Returns In Naugatuck Tax Preparer Indicted For Filing False Returns In Naugatuck
Tax Preparer Indicted For Filing False Returns In Naugatuck A tax preparer in Connecticut is facing a dozen charges for allegedly filing false returns over the course of several years. Ana Nunez - also known as Ana Pagoaga - of Naugatuck, has been indicted by a federal grand jury charging him with 12 counts of filing false tax returns. She has pleaded not guilty to the charges. U.S. Attorney John Durham said that Nunez was the owner of Nunez Multiservices, LLC, a tax return preparation service located in her hometown. Between 2011 and 2016, Nunez allegedly falsified information on tax returns she prepared for clients and caused the returns to be fil…

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by Zak Failla
Teaneck, NJ
Police & Fire
Ex-Teaneck Tax Preparer Gets 2½ Years In Federal Pen For Conning IRS, Helping 14 Others Ex-Teaneck Tax Preparer Gets 2½ Years In Federal Pen For Conning IRS, Helping 14 Others
Ex-Teaneck Tax Preparer Gets 2½ Years In Federal Pen For Conning IRS, Helping 14 Others A judge in Newark on Thursday sentenced a former Teaneck tax preparer to 2½ years in federal prison for helping himself and 14 clients cheat on their taxes. Sixto Rodriguez, 55, who'd moved to Kissimmee, FL, must serve just about all of the sentence. There's no parole in the federal prison system. He was convicted earlier this year by U.S. District Judge Kevin McNulty of dozens of counts of filing the bogus returns following a one-week bench trial in federal court in Newark. At the Teaneck business he named "1-2-3 Taxes," Rodriguez "inflated education credits, charitable don…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
Tax Dodge Sends 'Jersey Shore's Michael ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino, Brother To Federal Prison Tax Dodge Sends 'Jersey Shore's Michael ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino, Brother To Federal Prison
Tax Dodge Sends 'Jersey Shore's Michael ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino, Brother To Federal Prison Former "Jersey Shore" personality Michael “The Situation” Sorrentino was sentenced Friday to eight months in federal prison and his brother, Marc, to two years for ducking taxes on what authorities said was nearly $9 million in income from promotional gigs -- while claiming pricey clothing, high-end cars and personal grooming as business expenses. Both were scheduled to go to trial late last year but agreed to plea deals from the government instead. Michael Sorrentino, 37, pleaded guilty in January to tax evasion, while Marc Sorrentino, 39, admitted in U.S. District Court in Newar…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Police & Fire
Park Ridge Businessman Gets 61 Months In Fed Pen For Conning Toys R Us, Other Company Of $3M Park Ridge Businessman Gets 61 Months In Fed Pen For Conning Toys R Us, Other Company Of $3M
Park Ridge Businessman Gets 61 Months In Fed Pen For Conning Toys R Us, Other Company Of $3M A Park Ridge con man was sentenced Wednesday to 61 months in federal prison for using shell companies and phony invoices to scam both an international company he worked for and Toys R Us, where his now-deceased ex-wife had worked, out of $3 million. Philip Charles de Gruchy, 64, admitted conspiring to commit mail fraud and subscribing to false individual and corporate tax returns in U.S. District Court in Newark in March. de Gruchy, 64, was married at the time to Barbara Brown, an administrator with Toys R Us in Wayne who authorities said steered a contract to CEM Direct Marketing — a ficti…

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by Jerry DeMarco
White Plains, NY
Politics
State Investigators Issue Subpoena To Michael Cohen As Part Of Trump Foundation Probe State Investigators Issue Subpoena To Michael Cohen As Part Of Trump Foundation Probe
State Investigators Issue Subpoena To Michael Cohen As Part Of Trump Foundation Probe Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney to President Donald Trump, has been subpoenaed by New York state investigators as part of a probe of the Trump Foundation, according to multiple reports. The move comes less than 24 hours after Cohen agreed to a plea agreement on eight charges, including multiple felony counts of bank and tax fraud as well federal campaign-finance violations involving hush-money payments he made to women who say they had extra-marital affairs with Trump.  Cohen, 51, said in court that Trump directed him to make the hush-money payments, and one audio recording by C…

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by Joe Lombardi
Fairfield, CT
News
CT Man Sentenced, Must Pay Back $400K For Preparing False Returns CT Man Sentenced, Must Pay Back $400K For Preparing False Returns
CT Man Sentenced, Must Pay Back $400K For Preparing False Returns A former tax preparer in Connecticut is heading to prison and must pay back more than $400,000 for preparing false tax returns and underpaying his own federal taxes. Waterbury resident Michael Mir, 41, was sentenced to 20 months in federal prison following a four-year scheme through a tax preparation practice he operated in his hometown. From 2012 through 2015, Mir prepared more than 3,300 federal tax returns, John Durham, the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, stated when announcing his sentence this week. During that time, Mir falsified information on numerous returns…

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by Zak Failla
Armonk, NY
News
Tax Preparer In Northern Westchester Busted For Alleged Fraud For Second Time, DA Says Tax Preparer In Northern Westchester Busted For Alleged Fraud For Second Time, DA Says
Tax Preparer In Northern Westchester Busted For Alleged Fraud For Second Time, DA Says A tax preparer in Northern Westchester with a previous conviction for tax fraud is facing new charges after allegedly engaging in an elaborate scheme “constituting a systematic ongoing course of conduct.” Yorktown Heights resident Steve Sabba, 61, has been charged in an eight-count indictment with tax fraud and other felonies following a lengthy investigation by investigators by the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance and the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office.  Sabba and his company, TaxPro Financial Network, were arraigned this week in Westchester County Court. A…

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by Zak Failla
Fairfield, CT
News
Ex-Cop Who Owes IRS $400K Sentenced To Federal Prison Ex-Cop Who Owes IRS $400K Sentenced To Federal Prison
Ex-Cop Who Owes IRS $400K Sentenced To Federal Prison A scheme to falsify tax records went wrong for a former cop in Connecticut, who owes the IRS nearly $400,000 and will spend time behind bars after filing a falsified tax return. Crag Francis - also known as Horus Jurjaya Bey - a former Hartford Police officer, was sentenced in Hartford District Court on Friday to 18 months in prison followed by one year of supervised release for filing a false tax return. In February 2009, Windsor resident Francis e-filed a 2008 federal income tax return that listed falsely inflated amounts of both interest income received and taxable income withheld by the…

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by Zak Failla