Brooklyn Resident Sentenced to Prison for Defrauding the IRS and Stealing Government Funds (he should have hired SELIG & Associates)

A Brooklyn, New York, man was sentenced to 48 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the government and theft of public funds, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.

According to documents filed with the court, Akim Martin, also known as Akim Davis, conspired with others to file fraudulent tax returns for companies and individual taxpayers.  As part of the scheme, from March 2009 through March 2013, Martin and his co-conspirators filed false tax returns in the names of businesses they purportedly owned and operated, claiming phony deductions for wages paid to employees that purportedly worked for the fake companies.  Martin negotiated fraudulently obtained federal refund checks and spent the money on his personal expenses.   Martin’s conduct resulted in a tax loss of over $550,000.

In addition to the term of imprisonment imposed, U.S. District Judge Carol Bagley Amon ordered Martin to serve 3 years of supervised release, forfeit $82,600, and to pay restitution of $544,325 to the IRS.    

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Zuckerman commended special agents of IRS-Criminal Investigation, who conducted the investigation, and Trial Attorneys Jason Scheff and Ann M. Cherry of the Tax Division, who prosecuted the case.  
 

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North Carolina Man Sentenced for Tax Evasion and Possession of an Unregistered Firearm (he should have hired SELIG & Associates)

On December 16, 2016, in Charlotte, North Carolina, Reuben T. DeHaan, of Kings Mountain, was sentenced to 24 months in prison for tax evasion and possession of an unregistered firearm. DeHaan owned a holistic medicine business, which he operated out of his residence under the names Health Care Ministries International Inc. and Get Well Stay Well.  DeHaan admitted that, from 2008 through 2014, he earned more than $2.7 million in gross receipts, but failed to file income tax returns for those years and evaded the payment of approximately $678,000 in income tax. He did this with the help of Richard H. Campbell Jr. and others, by setting up straw companies and opening bank accounts in the name of the straw companies to hide his income and assets from the Internal Revenue Service. DeHaan also claimed he was exempt from the payment of taxes because he was an ordained “medicine man” whose earnings were exempt from taxation. In addition, DeHaan also admitted to the possession of unlicensed firearms.

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