LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Las Vegas lawyer Charles C. LoBello has been sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay $260,625 in restitution to the IRS for his guilty plea to one count of tax evasion for the 2002 tax year, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for Nevada.
LoBello was sentenced on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013, by U.S. District Judge James C. Mahan, and must self-report to federal prison by April 15, 2013.
According to the court records, LoBello, who operated as a sole practitioner in Las Vegas, concealed over $900,000 in income from the United States, intentionally gave incomplete information to his bookkeeper and tax return preparer, and used personal checking accounts to hide large checks he received as legal fees. LoBello admitted in his guilty plea agreement that for the years 2001 through 2005, he owed an additional $260,625 in income taxes.
LoBello’s brother, Mark LoBello, also a Nevada attorney, pleaded guilty to tax evasion in August of 2008, and was sentenced by Judge Mahan on Dec. 1, 2008, to 15 months in prison. Mark LoBello’s license to practice law was subsequently suspended by the Nevada Bar in December 2008.
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