Saturday, August 31, 2013

Douglas R. Madsen Chiropactor Sentenced to Prison for Tax Evasion


Source- http://www.justice.gov/tax/2013/txdv13961.htm

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that today Douglas R. Madsen, a former chiropractor from Ephraim, Utah, was sentenced by the U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups to 33 months in prison and resitutition of over $500,000 following a conviction for attempted evasion of payment of income tax in the District of Utah.

On Jan. 12, 2012, a jury convicted Madsen of one count of tax evasion. According to court documents, Madsen owed approximately $1.3 million in assessed income tax, interest and penalties for the years 1995 and 1999 to 2004. Madsen’s tax debt had grown, by the trial date, to over $1.7 million, after accrued interest.

The evidence presented at trial established that Madsen used nominee trusts to conceal the ownership of numerous acres of property, ultimately causing the transfer of that property to Grand Scale Inc., a Washington state corporation of which he was the president, vice president, secretary, treasurer and chairman of the board. In addition, the evidence showed that Madsen used other entities to encumber property and cloud equity in that property through use of mortgages and Uniform Commercial Code financing statements. Madsen was previously held in civil contempt by the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah for failure to comply with court orders with respect to an IRS summons.


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Friday, August 30, 2013

Antoine Green Alabama Postal Employee Pleads Guilty for his Involvement in a Fraudulent Tax Refund Scheme



Source- http://www.justice.gov/tax/2013/txdv13959.htm

WASHINGTON – Antoine Green, a former U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama to crimes related to his involvement in a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme, the Justice Department announced.

According to court documents, between November 2011 and October 2012, Green, who was employed as a postal carrier with the USPS in Montgomery, Ala., stole at least 61 U.S. Treasury tax refund checks from his mail route. The checks, which totaled approximately $145,952, were issued by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in connection with fraudulent tax returns filed in the names of identity theft victims.

For his involvement in the scheme, Green pleaded guilty to one count of theft of government money and one count of theft of mail by a postal employee. He faces a maximum potential sentence of 15 years in prison and a fine of up to $500,000.

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Karena Mondrianh is Permanently Barred From Tax Preparation and Impeding Audits


Source- http://www.justice.gov/tax/2013/txdv13955.htm

Many customers of a Southlake Woman Allegedly Worked Overseas for Defense Contractors

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced that yesterday a federal court in Ft. Worth, Texas permanently barred Karena Mondrianh, of Southlake, Texas, from preparing tax returns and from operating a tax-preparation business. Mondrianh consented to entry of the preliminary injunctions without admitting the allegations against her.

In its complaint, the government alleged that Mondrianh prepared fraudulent tax returns understating customers' income by inventing – sometimes without customers' knowledge – false business expenses and by falsely claiming that customers' income was exempt from tax. According to the complaint most of Mondrianh’s customers work overseas for defense contractors. The permanent injunction order was signed by Judge John H. McBryde of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

The complaint further alleged that Mondrianh provided false information to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in improper attempts to delay IRS audits of customers. She also allegedly urged a customer to lie to an IRS agent in order to forestall an IRS audit. For more information about this complaint visit www.justice.gov/tax/2013/txdv13690.htm.

Return preparer fraud is one of the IRS’s Dirty Dozen Tax Scams for 2013, which can be viewed at www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/IRS-Releases-the-Dirty-Dozen-Tax-Scams-for-2013.


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Saturday, August 10, 2013

Justice Department Files Suit to Stop Michael I. Turner From Preparing Tax Returns



WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that the United States has filed a civil injunction suit against Michael I. Turner, of San Diego to stop him from preparing federal tax returns.

The government complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, alleges that Turner, who has prepared returns since at least 2004, has failed to sign or affix a Preparer Tax Identification Number (PTIN) to many of the returns that he has prepared. In addition and according to the government, Turner takes bogus deductions on his customers' returns in order to claim larger refunds for his customers. His customers then recommend Turner as a tax preparer to their friends, which helps Turner to expand his customer base and further increase his own profits. Specifically, the government alleges that Turner claims inflated or fabricated deductions on the Schedule A of his customers' Form 1040 tax returns, claiming that his customers have large non-cash charitable contributions and unreimbursed employee expenses. The complaint also alleges that when Turner's customers are audited, Turner has provided false documents to those customers in an attempt to assist them in substantiating charitable contributions and employee expenses that they did not incur. According to the complaint, however, Turner has instructed his customers not to identify him as their tax return preparer in communications with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

The government alleges that Turner continues to prepare tax returns. According to the complaint, Turner applied for a PTIN in 2010, and has prepared at least 68 tax returns for the 2012 tax year using that PTIN.

The government seeks, among other things, that the court bar Turner from acting as a tax return preparer or assisting others in preparing or filing federal tax returns or other tax forms or documents. The government also requests that the court bar Turner from appearing as a representative on behalf of any person or entity before the IRS, and from owning, managing, controlling, working for or volunteering for a tax-return preparation business.


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Friday, August 9, 2013

Tomas Olazabal Owner of New York Construction Company Indicted for Tax Fraud


Source- http://www.justice.gov/tax/2013/txdv13906.htm

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that Tomas Olazabal, of Fresh Meadows, N.Y., was arrested today following his indictment in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York on Aug. 8, 2013, on multiple tax crimes.

According to the indictment, Olazabal owned Tupac Construction Corp., a construction company in Fresh Meadows. As alleged in the indictment, Olazabal used check cashing services to cash a substantial number of checks paid to his construction company for services between 2007 and 2008. He concealed his check cashing activities from his tax return preparers. Accordingly, the gross receipts represented by the checks negotiated at the check cashers were not included as gross receipts on the company's tax returns.

The indictment alleges that Olazabal filed false 2007 and 2008 corporate income tax returns for Tupac. Olazabal faces a potential maximum sentence of six years in prison and a potential fine of up to $500,000.

A trial date has not been scheduled. An indictment merely alleges that a crime has been committed, and a defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

The case was investigated by IRS - Criminal Investigation and is being prosecuted by Trial Attorneys Mark Kotila and Steve Descano of the Justice Department's Tax Division.


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Thursday, August 8, 2013

Greene Wylie Sheppard, Sabrina Johnson-Lavant and Chandra Henderson Sentenced for Tax Fraud


Source- http://www.justice.gov/tax/2013/txdv13902.htm

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that former professional tax return preparers Greene Wylie Sheppard, Sabrina Johnson-Lavant and Chandra Henderson were sentenced this month to serve 56 months, 18 months, and 8 months in prison, respectively, for conspiring to defraud the United States by filing false tax returns in order to receive fraudulently-inflated refunds for their clients. In addition to conspiracy, Sheppard was also sentenced for aggravated identity theft. Sheppard was sentenced on July 11, 2013, and Johnson-Lavant and Henderson were sentenced yesterday.

According to court documents, Sheppard owned and operated Quick Tax, a tax preparation business in Cordele, Ga. He conspired with his employees Johnson-Lavant and Henderson to obtain higher refunds on clients' returns by falsely inflating clients' wages in order to exploit certain tax credits. The co-conspirators sold other people's identifying information to their clients, and these other identities would then be claimed as dependents on their tax returns in order to manipulate the size of the refund. The three return preparers acquired dozens of identities by purchasing them. They maintained notebooks that kept track of the identities and how much clients owed them for the false dependents. Over the course of the conspiracy, which spanned four years, Quick Tax claimed over $400,000 in fraudulent refunds.


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Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Gary Mach Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Defraud The Internal Revenue Service


Source- http://www.justice.gov/tax/2013/txdv13897.htm

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that Gary Mach, a Palm Desert, Calif. resident who operated Crystal Springs Pool Service (CSPS), pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

According to the plea agreement, beginning around January 2002 and continuing through December 2010, Mach failed to report substantial income he earned from CSPS, a pool servicing business operated throughout Riverside County, Calif. Mach and others established fictitious trusts which they used to receive income and hold assets in an attempt to conceal the assets and income from the IRS.

According to court documents, Mach purported to operate a trust called "Quintessential," and directed that his paychecks be made payable to Quintessential. He also opened a bank account in the name of Quintessential where he deposited CSPS proceeds. Mach admits that he did not report to the IRS any of the income he earned from CSPS between 2002 and 2010 and used Quintessential to conceal income from the IRS. In furtherance of the conspiracy, Mach also attempted to impede an IRS summons issued to a bank for business account records. Mach closed his bank account after the bank complied with the IRS summons.

As stated in the plea agreement, the agreed upon total unreported income for the tax years 2002 through 2010 is $1,410,430 and the total tax due and owing is $270,725. Mach has also agreed that he should be ordered to pay restitution for the amount of total tax due and owing.

Mach's sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 14, 2013, before U.S. District Judge John A. Kronstadt and he faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000 or twice the gain or loss resulting from his offense.


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