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A Walled Lake, Michigan, businessperson, who owned a restaurant and an adult entertainment facility, pleaded guilty to willful failure to pay over employment taxes and failure to file an individual income tax return, on August 28, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.

An associate of a former U.S. Border Patrol Agent (BPA) was sentenced to 48 months in prison followed by one year of supervised release for conspiring to accept money in return for helping to smuggle marijuana and other illegal drugs into the United States.

The owners and operators of multiple Michigan adult foster care homes were sentenced for federal tax crimes, on August 28. Jeremiah Cheff was sentenced to 27 months in prison, and Nicolette Cheff was sentenced to two years of probation, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider for the Eastern District of Michigan.

A New London, North Carolina, woman was sentenced to 14 months in prison for federal employment tax fraud, on August 27, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin for the Middle District of North Carolina.

An orthodontist who owned several businesses that operated orthodontic clinics in Arkansas was indicted for perpetrating a bribery and fraud scheme involving former Arkansas State Senator Jeremy Hutchinson, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Duane "DAK" Kees for the Western District of Arkansas.

Lukas Lien, professor of University of Osnabrück, Germany (middle), Hendrick Lam, senior vice president of a listed company (second from right), Charlotte Lee, an observer of Commission on Human Rights, Association of World Citizens (Taiwan) (second from left), Shelly Tu, an accountant and a volunteer of Tax & Legal Reform League (first from right) and Julian Cheng, executive director of international property management (first from left). The above experts attended the seminar to give critiques of the serious flaws of Taiwan’s tax system and put forward concrete suggestions.

A Waco, Texas, tax return preparer pleaded guilty before United States Magistrate Judge Jeffrey C. Manske to conspiracy to defraud the United States announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, on August 6.

A federal jury in Flint, Michigan, convicted Gerri Avery of engaging in a corrupt endeavor to obstruct and impede the due administration of the internal revenue laws, on August 2, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.

A federal jury in Detroit, Michigan found a patient recruiter guilty for his role in a scheme involving approximately $1.3 million in fraudulent Medicare claims for home health care that were procured through the payment of kickbacks, on July 30.

A Colorado tax defier was convicted of tax evasion by a federal jury in Denver, on July 25, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn for the District of Colorado.