Former Company President Sentenced for Wire Fraud and Income Tax Evasion (he should have hired SELIG & Associates)

On December 29, 2016, in Rockford, Illinois, Christopher A. Jansen, of St. Charles, was sentenced to 70 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $269,978 in restitution. Jansen was President of Baytree Investors Inc., an Illinois corporation engaged in acquiring trucking companies.  In 2001 Jansen learned DFC Transportation was for sale, created a Delaware corporation, DFCTC Holding Inc., and arranged for DFCTC to purchase DFC with money Jansen borrowed using DFC receivables as collateral. Jansen arranged for other individuals to be the owners of DFCTC, some of whom were previous investors in failed Baytree business acquisitions. With appointment or authority, Jansen represented to others that he was the corporate secretary and controlled both DFCTC and DFC to avoid having shareholder or director meetings. Jansen then arranged for DFC to use its receivables to borrow from a bank and, without authorization, ordered employees to transfer money from DFC to DFCTC. Jansen then distributed the money to himself and others for their personal use and benefit. In addition, in 2002 Jansen used a bank account in the name of a dissolved corporation to receive his income and disburse his expenditures. He intentionally failed to have the dissolved corporation file informational forms with the IRS for taxable income distributed to him from the account.  Jansen also failed to have Baytree and DFCTC file informational forms with the IRS regarding distributions of taxable income to him. In addition, Jansen did not have a bank account in his name in order to avoid reporting any income to the IRS.

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