Tax Fraud

Yomarie Febres really thought she would get away with fraud when she filed fraudulent income tax returns as part of a multimillion-dollar tax refund scheme, by completing each return as “self-prepared” as opposed to putting her own name down as the tax form preparer....

Volodymyr Ogorodnychuk was a not good manager. Ogorodnychuk, of Key West, Florida managed four companies, Paradise Choice, Paradise Choice Cleaning, Tropical City Services and Tropical City Group. All staffing companies in southern Florida. These companies contracted with Keys’ hotels, bars and restaurants to provide...

Fraudsters know a good accountant when they see one, which is probably why Mustafa Qadiri, charged with $5 million COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program fraud, used Bernard Turk instead as his accountant. On July 15, 2022, Turk, a San Fernando Valley accountant pleaded guilty to...

Being a professional athlete can be very lucrative. But according to Craig Brown of NKSFB, about 78% of professional athletes go broke after retirement. One way to protect the nest egg is to know the tax loopholes which favor the wealthy. Seir Robinson Havana,...

After six years on the run, a Mexican man who lived in Nashville when he allegedly defrauded the U.S. government has been captured by authorities. In 2015, Claudio Juarez and 46 others were charged with conspiracy to file false income tax returns against the United...

Ezra Hatcher Sr., of Augusta, Ga., and his daughter, Sherry Hatcher, have confessed to filing fraudulent inflated tax returns on behalf of their clients. (Fathers should teach their daughters many things, but how to commit fraud is definitely not one of them.) An Internal Revenue...

Small businesses are the backbone of this country’s economy. Many small business owners can make their dreams come true and provide jobs for others through their hard work. (Unfortunately, not all business owners are honest or engaging in legal activities.) Leonard Charles Fleszar of Phoenix,...

Xiaojian Tao and Yu “Laura” Long are facing several charges due to their involvement in a  number of criminal activities. The married couple’s alleged scheme to defraud a research and development company that provided services to industrial and government clients in the United States...

Here’s some important advice: if you owe the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), pay up without delay. In hindsight, Dr. Kevin L. Crandell of Golden, Miss., probably wishes he had not skipped paying his personal income taxes over multiple years. (Nearly $1 million in back...

There are harmless diversions and then there are harmful ones. An example of a harmless diversion is when your child is having a temper tantrum in the middle of the check-out line at the grocery store, and you offer them a binky, favorite toy,...