Politics

New York Business Owner Sentenced to Prison for Failure to Pay Employment Taxes

A Dix Hills, New York, resident and business owner was sentenced to serve more than one year in prison on June 5 in the Eastern District of New York for employment tax fraud, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the...

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Jury Convicts Fort Peck Man of Raping a Sleeping Woman and Making False Statements to Federal Agents

The United States Attorney’s Office announces that on June 2, 2015, a jury convicted Brandon Ray Buckles, 28, of Poplar, Montana, on all charges stemming from a rape on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. The jury found Buckles guilty of Sexual Abuse...

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US Federal Court Prohibits Nevada Tax Preparer from Preparing Returns Containing Foreign Earned Income Exclusion

A federal court has barred a North Las Vegas, Nevada, woman and her business from preparing federal tax returns that contain or involve foreign earned income and from promoting the exclusion of foreign earned income to others, the Justice Department...

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President of New Jersey-Based Financial Services Firm Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Multimillion-Dollar Securities Fraud

The president of an investment and financial services firm was sentenced Thursday to 120 months in prison for evading taxes and defrauding dozens of investors in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas and elsewhere of $5 million, announced by U.S. Attorney...

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Kentucky Businessman Sentenced in New York Federal Court for $53 Million Tax Scheme and Massive Fraud that Involved Bribery of Bank Officials

Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Department of Justice’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of the Southern District of New York announced that a Kentucky businessman was sentenced Thursday to serve 12 years in...

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United States Settles Kickback Allegations with Georgia Hospital

The Department of Justice announced Thursday that the United States has settled a False Claims Act lawsuit with Health Management Associates (HMA) and Clearview Regional Medical Center for $595,155. The lawsuit filed in the Middle District of Georgia...

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Four People Arrested and Charged in Cross-Country Insider Trading Scheme

The owner and operator of a stock trading operation and three of his associates were arrested on charges arising from their alleged participation in a multi-year insider trading scheme that netted more than $3.2 million in illicit profits, announced...

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New York Tax Return Preparer Pleads Guilty to Preparing False Tax Returns

A Staten Island, New York, on June 1 tax return preparer and business owner pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of New York to preparing false federal income tax returns, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D...

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