“Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness” Part (1)

Driven to Deceive. 

Michael Danilovich (NYC) masterminded a massive fraud ring that stole $279 million in false injury claims from bogus and setup car wrecks. It was one of the largest such crimes in U.S. history.

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IRS explains CP2000 notices sent to taxpayers when their tax return doesn’t match information from 3rd parties

When a tax return’s information doesn’t match data reported to the Internal Revenue Service by employers, banks and other third parties, the IRS will send a letter to the taxpayer. The letter is called an IRS Notice CP2000, and it gives detailed information about issues the IRS identified and provides steps taxpayers should take to resolve those issues. This isn’t a formal audit notification, but a notice to see if the taxpayer agrees or disagrees with the proposed tax changes. Taxpayers should respond to the CP2000, usually within 30 days from the date printed on the notice. If a timely response can’t be made, taxpayers need to call the toll-free number shown on the notice and request additional time to respond. Taxpayers can also call the number on the notice for additional information or assistance, or visit Understanding Your CP2000 Notice on IRS.gov. The IRS will send another notice if the taxpayer doesn’t respond to the initial one, or if the IRS can’t accept the additional information provided. That follow-up notice is called an IRS Notice CP3219A, Statutory Notice of Deficiency. This notice gives detailed information about why the IRS proposes a tax change and how the agency determined the change. The notice tells taxpayers about their right to challenge the decision in Tax Court. Even if they decide not to go to court, the IRS will continue to work with them during the statutory notice timeframe to help resolve the issue. For more information, check out Understanding your CP3219A Notice on IRS.gov.

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Chiropractor Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion (he should have hired SELIG & Associates)

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The owner of a chiropractic business pleaded guilty to tax evasion, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.  According to an indictment filed in June 2018, Richard Rogers, a Northborough, Massachusetts, chiropractor, operated his practice from his residence. Rogers was charged with evading his taxes from 2012 through 2016 by concealing his income from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) through a variety of methods. Rogers encouraged his clients to pay in cash, used a nominee bank account to negotiate check payments when he was not paid in cash, paid creditors using postal money orders, and used credit card accounts opened with a fictitious social security number. Rogers also concealed the ownership of his residence by titling the property in the name of a trust. Rogers did not file federal tax returns from at least 2008 through 2016, despite his obligation to do so.

United States District Judge Timothy S. Hillman scheduled sentencing for Sept. 10, 2019. Rogers faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison, three years of supervised release, and monetary penalties. Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Zuckerman thanked special agents of IRS-Criminal Investigation, who conducted the investigation, and Assistant Chief John N. Kane and Trial Attorney Carl F. Brooker of the Tax Division, who are prosecuting the case.

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Old Saybrook man lied about Hurricane Sandy damage to obtain $1.6 million in disaster loans, prosecutors say

An Old Saybrook marina owner pleaded guilty Monday to lying about damage his property sustained during Hurricane Sandy to obtain more than $1.6 million in disaster relief loans from the Small Business Administration.

Scott Sundholm 39, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty Monday to one count of making false statements to obtain the loans before U.S. District Judge Michael Shea in Hartford federal court.

Sundholm owns and operates S&S Marine in Old Saybrook and applied for a disaster loan from the Small Business Administration in 2016 for damage he claimed the property sustained during Hurricane Sandy in 2012, U.S. Attorney John Durham said.

The tidal surge during the storm at the marina allegedly damaged floating boat docks, a boat ramp, a metal shop building and a bath house, Sundholm claimed at the time. He also claimed he rebuilt the bath house “the same size and quality” after the storm.

In reality, though, the marina had no floating boat docks or ramps before the storm and Sundholm had demolished the previous bath house in September 2012 — more a month before Hurricane Sandy, Durham said.

Hurricane Sandy devastated the Northeast when it made landfall at the end of October 2012 and is considered the second costliest storm in U.S. history after it caused an estimated $75 billion in physical damage and business losses, federal officials concluded.

Federal lawmakers later allocated hundreds of millions of dollars to the Small Business Administration to offer disaster relief assistance and small business loans to home and business owners in the wake of the storm and the administration totaled nearly $114 million in verified losses through the program in Connecticut, according to government data.

Long delays and rejections plagued the SBA’s first round of assistance processing in the immediate aftermath of the storm, however, so lawmakers reopened the program for Sandy victims in late 2015 and into 2016, when Sundholm made his application for a business loan.

Sundholm has since paid full restitution of more than $1.65 million to the Small Business Administration, Durham said.

Sundholm is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 6 and faces a maximum term of two years in prison and a fine. He has been released until the sentencing, Durham said.

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Four Family Members and a very unhappy Businessmen Sentenced for Tax Fraud

Four family members and a businessmen were sentenced to prison for their participation in  a long-term, complex and concerted effort to avoid taxation. In October 2010, Chester A. Bitterman Jr. and his sons, Craig L. Bitterman, C. Grant Bitterman and Curtis L. Bitterman, were convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States. Craig Bitterman was additionally convicted of obstruction of justice. Prior to sentencing, the defendants paid $437,000 in restitution to the IRS. The four were sentenced as follows: Chester A. Bitterman Jr. was sentenced to three years’ probation and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine; Craig L. Bitterman was sentenced to 36 months in prison and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine; C. Grant Bitterman was sentenced to 21 months in prison and ordered to pay a $7,500 fine; an Curtis L. Bitterman was sentenced to 21 months in prison and ordered to pay a $7,500 fine. From 1996 to 2005 the Bittermans owned and operated the Bitterman Scale Company. To conceal their income and assets from the IRS, the Bittermans used aliases, offshore bank accounts and a complex series of sham paper transactions to disguise income. The defendants transferred their personal and business assets to sham trusts purchased from the Commonwealth Trust Company, a tax protester organization that marketed trust products to clients for the purpose of avoiding federal income tax payment. The trusts were used to make it appear as though the defendants had little or no assets or income. In reality, the defendants retained complete access and control over their funds.

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Bank Leumi Admits to Assisting U.S. Taxpayers in Hiding Assets in Offshore Bank Accounts - better call SELIG & Associates

Israeli Bank Discloses more than 1,500 U.S. Account Holders and Enters into Deferred Prosecution Agreement with Justice Department A major Israeli international bank admitted that it conspired to aid and assist U.S. taxpayers to prepare and present false tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by hiding income and assets in offshore bank accounts in Israel and elsewhere around the world.  A deferred prosecution agreement between the Bank Leumi Group and the Department of Justice was filed today in the Central District of California that defers prosecution on a criminal information charging the bank with conspiracy to aid and assist in the preparation and presentation of false tax returns and other documents to the Internal Revenue Service.  This unprecedented agreement marks the first time an Israeli bank has admitted to such criminal conduct which spanned over a 10 year period and included an array of services and products designed to keep U.S. taxpayer accounts concealed at Bank Leumi Group’s locations in Israel, Switzerland, Luxembourg and the United States.The Bank Leumi Group’s parent company is Bank Leumi le-Israel, B.M.  Bank Leumi le-Israel is one of Israel’s largest banks, with subsidiaries in seven countries and more than 13,000 employees.  Other subsidiary banks entering into this deferred prosecution agreement include The Bank Leumi le-Israel Trust Company Ltd., the oldest and largest of all bank trust companies in Israel; Leumi Private Bank S.A., a Switzerland-based subsidiary; Bank Leumi (Luxembourg) S.A., a Luxembourg-based subsidiary; and Bank Leumi USA, a FDIC-insured, full-service commercial bank with offices in California, Florida, Illinois and New York. According to documents filed in the case, to account for their criminal conduct, Bank Leumi Group will pay the United States a total of $270 million. Of this total payment, $157 million represents a penalty for U.S. taxpayer accounts held at Leumi Private Bank in Switzerland.  This $157 million penalty is consistent with the department’s Swiss Bank Program, which permits certain Swiss Banks to avoid prosecution by making a full and complete disclosure of their U.S. taxpayer-held accounts and paying substantial penalties.  The agreement further provides that Bank Leumi Luxembourg and Leumi Private Bank will cease to provide banking and investment services for all accounts held or beneficially owned by U.S. taxpayers. “The Bank Leumi Group recognized that the writing is on the wall for offshore banking, and cooperating with the government’s investigation was the only way to proceed,” said Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole.  “This deferred prosecution agreement demonstrates both that the Justice Department will hold financial institutions accountable for their crimes, and that we will be fair in recognizing extraordinary cooperation.” According to the filed statement of facts, from at least 2000 until early 2011, the Bank Leumi Group took affirmative and extensive steps to assist U.S. clients in concealing their assets offshore, including:

• surreptitiously sending private bankers from Israel and elsewhere around the world to the United States to meet secretly with U.S. clients at hotels, parks and coffee shops to discuss their offshore account activity;
• assisting U.S. clients in using nominee corporate entities created in Belize and other foreign jurisdictions to hide their undeclared accounts by concealing the U.S. client as the true beneficial owner of the account;
• using the Bank Leumi le-Israel Trust Company as a nominee account holder for U.S. clients with accounts in Israel to conceal the U.S. client as the true beneficial owner of the account;
• maintaining U.S. clients’ undeclared offshore accounts under assumed names or numbered accounts to conceal the U.S. client as the true beneficial owner of the account;
• providing hold mail services so that correspondence and other account information would not go directly to the U.S. client to make it more difficult to connect the client to the secret offshore account;
• extending loans to U.S. clients from Bank Leumi USA that were collateralized by the assets in those clients’ offshore accounts, so that the clients could leverage their offshore assets to obtain and use capital in the United States while keeping their foreign accounts secret and undetected from the U.S. government; and
• after the department’s investigation into UBS and other Swiss banks’ criminal conduct in aiding U.S. taxpayers to evade their taxes became public, the Bank Leumi Group opened and maintained accounts for U.S. taxpayers who left UBS and other Swiss banks due to the investigation in an effort to continue to avoid detection by the U.S. government.

“The Bank Leumi Group’s admission of guilt to knowingly conspiring to assist U.S. taxpayers in filing false income tax returns and other documents with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) represents the Department of Justice’s next step in its worldwide efforts to hold banks and other financial institutions responsible for their criminal conduct,” said the Tax Division’s Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Larry J. Wszalek.  “Those institutions that have engaged, or continue to engage, in conduct similar to that of Bank Leumi Group are well advised that the Tax Division will continue to extend its global reach in enforcing this nation’s criminal tax laws.”

According to documents filed in the case, as part of its agreement with the department, the Bank Leumi Group provided the names of more than 1,500 of its U.S. account holders.  As part of the agreement, the Bank Leumi Group will continue to disclose information to the government regarding its cross-border business and provide testimony and information regarding other investigations. 

“There are many provisions of federal law that can benefit taxpayers, but maintaining secret offshore accounts to conceal assets is not a legal method of lowering one’s tax liability,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Stephanie Yonekura for the Central District of California.  “Any financial institution – no matter where it operates – will be held accountable if it helps U.S. residents dodge their tax responsibilities.  This agreement with Leumi Bank is the latest notice to American taxpayers who might flout the law that we can and will uncover your hidden assets.”

“Today’s deferred prosecution announcement against Leumi Bank is yet another historical event in the international tax arena,” said Commissioner John Koskinen of the IRS.  “IRS will not tolerate the use of offshore accounts to illegally escape paying taxes and we will continue to focus on this priority area.”

“This case shows that banks who promote the use of offshore tax schemes against the United States will be held accountable and face substantial fines and penalties,” said Chief Richard Weber of IRS-Criminal Investigation.  “This investigation involved untangling a complex web of financial transactions where Bank Leumi assisted U.S. taxpayers in concealing undeclared bank accounts.  As the premier financial investigators in the world, and the only law enforcement agency to investigate tax cases, our special agents will continue to investigate banks and individuals who violate the U.S. tax laws no matter where they reside.”

This case was prosecuted by Trial Attorneys Christopher S. Strauss, Ellen M. Quattrucci and Dennis R. Kihm for the Tax Division.  The Tax Division expressed gratitude to Assistant U.S. Attorney Sandra R. Brown and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California for their invaluable assistance in the investigation and prosecution of this case.  The case was investigated by IRS-Criminal Investigation.

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New York Tax Return Preparer Guilty of Tax Crimes & Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Scheme! Were You a Victim of Afolabi Ajelero, Hakeem Bamgbala, Michael Campbell & Mo-Betta Ventures?

 GUILTY AS CHARGED A Springfield Gardens, New York, resident was convicted yesterday by a federal jury for conspiring to commit aggravated identity theft and for two counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.

GUILTY AS SIN According to the evidence presented at trial, Afolabi Ajelero, the owner of Mo-Betta Ventures Inc., a tax preparation business located in Springfield Gardens, New York, conspired with others to possess and use without lawful authority one or more means of identification of another person. He also filed false corporate income tax returns for the 2014 and 2015 tax years for his business.

 GUILTY AS CHARGED Ajelero was acquitted of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft counts.

Ajelero faces a maximum sentence of five years for the conspiracy conviction and a maximum sentence of three years in prison for each count of aiding or assisting in the preparation of false returns. He also faces a period of supervised release, restitution, forfeiture and monetary penalties.

GUILTY AS SIN On Feb. 15, 2019, co-defendant Hakeem Bamgbala pleaded guilty to 18 counts of wire fraud, 22 counts of aggravated identity theft, one count of conspiring to commit aggravated identity theft, and one count of aiding and assisting the filing of a false tax return. On July 31, 2018, co-defendant Michael Campbell pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit aggravated identity theft. A sentencing date has not been set for Bamgbala and Campbell.

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Grease Monkey Chiseled Boss Out of $1.4 Million. Files False Tax Return & Gets Sent Straight to the Big-House

Mechanic Sentenced to 36 Months for Embezzling Approximately $1.4 Million from his Employer and Filing a False Tax Return. A mechanic was sentenced to prison today for wire fraud and filing a false income tax return, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and U.S. Attorney R. Andrew Murray for the Western District.

 Albert Strong, 59, was sentenced to 36 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. On April 12, 2018, Strong pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of filing a false tax return for tax year 2013.

According to the documents filed with the court, Strong worked as a machinist/mechanic for a company at its Charlotte, North Carolina location. From 2008 to 2015, Strong embezzled funds from the company using a fraudulent purchasing and billing scheme. Strong created a purported parts vendor, and then caused the company to order fictitious parts from the vendor. As part of the scheme, Strong created false invoices and submitted them to the company for payment. In all, Strong embezzled approximately $1,488,000 from the victim company. Strong also failed to report the embezzled funds on his 2009 through 2015 tax returns, resulting in an approximate $450,000 tax loss.

 In addition to the term of imprisonment imposed, Strong was order to serve two of supervised release and to pay restitution in the amount of $1,941,377.32.

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Zuckerman and U.S. Attorney Murray commended special agents of IRS-Criminal Investigation, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and U.S. Secret Service, who conducted the investigation, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Taylor Phillips and Trial Attorney Mara Strier of the Tax Division, who prosecuted this case.

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DC and Maryland Residents in Scheme to File Fraudulent Tax Returns and Obstruct the IRS

The indictment charges Johnny and Maria Moore, from the District of Columbia, along with Charese Johnson, aka Charese Adesalu, from Aberdeen, Maryland, with conspiring to defraud the United States in an effort to obtain fraudulent  refunds from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).  The indictment also charges the Moores with aiding and assisting in the preparation of false trust tax returns (Forms 1041), and filing their own false amended personal income tax returns (Forms 1040X) with the IRS.  Additionally, Johnson is charged with aiding and assisting the Moores in preparing their false Forms 1040X. 

To further the scheme, the Moores, together with Johnson and another co-conspirator, allegedly prepared and filed tax returns that claimed either false withholdings or false credits.  Based on those alleged falsities, they requested significant refunds to which they were not entitled.  The Moores allegedly received a refund of over $500,000 for one trust tax return filed for the 2012 tax year.  As charged in the indictment, when the IRS sought to recoup that refund, Johnson conspired with the Moores and others to obstruct the IRS collection efforts.

If convicted, the defendants each face a maximum sentence of 5 years for the conspiracy charge, and 3 years for each of the false return charges.  The defendants also face substantial monetary penalties, supervised release, and restitution.

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Zuckerman commended special agents of Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation, who investigated this case, and Trial Attorneys Abigail Burger Chingos and Jeffrey McLellan of the Tax Division, who are prosecuting this case.

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