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Middletown, NJ
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Jersey Shore Contractor Admits Ducking $609,668 In Employment, Personal Income Taxes
The owner of a Jersey Shore construction and demolition company admitted in federal court Wednesday that he ducked employment and personal income taxes. Peter Alvarez, 54, of Atlantic Highlands didn’t report income from clients’ checks that he cashed and then used, in part, to pay employees at Mr. Demo, a construction and demolition business that he owned and operated in Leonardo, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. Rather than face a trial, Alvarez took a deal from federal prosecutors. In exchange for leniency, the Middletown native pleaded guilty to evading employment and person…
Brentwood, NY
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Employee Accused Of Stealing More Than $143,000 From Long Island Business
A Long Island woman is facing time behind bars after allegedly stealing thousands from a company that provides services to children with developmental delays. Huntington Station woman Patricia Sales, age 46, was arrested this week after she allegedly stole more than $143,000 from her employer while working as the Director of Finance for All About Kids. Specifically, Sales was charged with a felony count of second-degree grand larceny. Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas said that as part of her duties at All About Kids, Sales had access to the company’s payroll and accounting …
Lower Paxton, PA
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PA Restaurant Owner Arrested By Feds For PPP Scam Could Get 90 Years In Prison, $2.6 Mil. Fine
A restaurant owner has been arrested for bank fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering in connection with federal loans he obtained, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Scott Levy, 58, of Harrisburg, applied for PPP loans on behalf of his business, Hershey Road Family Restaurant, and received $227,500 in loans from the federal government during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the DOJ. The restaurant closed in July of 2020. Levy is accused of spending the majority of those funds on his personal expenses. The case alleges Levy transferred the…
Edison, NJ
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Ex-Tax Department Worker Falsified, Tampered With Records, Middlesex Prosecutor Says
A former public employee In Middlesex County has been arrested for falsifying tax department records, authorities said. Toni Johnson, 38, of Brick was charged with tampering with public records, falsifying public records and computer theft, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone. Johnson, a former Carteret Borough Tax Collection Department employee, was charged after an investigation by Detective Paul Kelley of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office. Johnson is accused of illegally waiving and removing fees from the departmen…
Franklin Township, NJ
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NJ Con Man Who Swindled Elderly Out Of $2M Headed To Fed Pen
A confessed Somerset County con man is headed to federal prison for 6½ years for swindling elderly investors out of $2 million that he used, in part, to pay for his daughter’s college tuition and sorority fees. For nearly a decade, ex-financial advisor Daniel Rivera, 51, told primarily elderly investors that his Robbins Lane Properties was “staffed by experienced real estate professionals, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. Rivera promised a “guaranteed monthly income” thanks to a rate of return based on secure investments, she added. The truth, Honig said, was: “Robbins Lane had …
Lower Merion-Narberth, PA
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Philadelphia Tax Preparer From MontCo Charged With Filing Bogus Returns
The owner of a Philadelphia tax preparation business filed bogus returns for clients, a 29-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury charges. Eric Amaefuna, 65, of King of Prussia took a number of steps to defraud the IRS at American Financial Stewardship (AFS) in northeast Philadelphia from at least 2014 through 2016, the indictment says. These included claiming false or inflated employee business expenses, losses and miscellaneous deductions, as well as increasing the stated amount of state and local taxes paid, the indictment returned in Philadelphia says. Amaefuna's clients, in …
Jersey City, NJ
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Jersey Shore Bookie Admits Running Own ‘Pick Six’ Lottery, Cash Prizes Topped $100,000
A Jersey Shore bookmaker admitted in federal court on Tuesday that he operated his own lottery game in Hudson County using the numbers from the New Jersey Lottery Pick Six to award winners. Up to 8,000 participants at a time selected six numbers from 1 to 49 at $20 a pop, Edward O’Neill, 54, told a U.S. District Court judge in Newark. The sole winner of the illegal lottery was whoever matched all six numbers selected in the official Pick Six drawing. Prizes often exceeded $100,000, said O’Neill, of Beachwood, who skimmed a 10% vig off the total bets. Like bookies of days past, O’Neill per…
Pittsfield, MA
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Western Mass Business Owner Accused Of Scheme To Defraud State Of Sales Tax
A Western Massachusetts business owner has been indicted in an alleged scheme in which he sold software that allowed restaurants to delete cash sales from cash registers and keep meal taxes paid by customers. Hampden County resident Paul K. Backholm, age 53, of Westfield, was charged and arraigned on Friday, April 9, said Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey. The AG’s Office alleges from 2010 to 2015, Backholm, who owns a company that sells cash registers, sold sales suppression software to restaurants for cash that enabled the restaurants to delete cash sales, keep the meals tax t…
Massapequa, NY
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Nassau Business Owner Admits To $8M Tax Fraud
Two Long Island auto shops and their owner have been convicted of underreporting more than $8 million in taxable sales over the course of a decade, authorities said. New York Attorney General Letitia James announced on Friday, March 26 that Freeport resident Luis Crespo, the owner of Broadway Towing, Inc. and Broadway Auto & Towing, Inc. pleaded guilty to criminal tax fraud for failing to pay more than $700,000 in sales tax. Crespo, 53, also pleaded guilty to petit larceny and agreed to pay the state more than $900,000 in restitution. James said that between 2009 and 2018, a joint inve…
North Hunterdon, NJ
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Prosecutor: Former Warren County Municipal Tax Collector, 50, Stole Payments Totaling $824K
A Warren County woman admitted stealing more than $800,000 in payments while working as a municipal tax collector for three townships, authorities said. Rachellyn Mosher, 50, misappropriated a total of $824,000 from taxpayers in White, Harmony and Lopatcong Township between 2013 and 2018, Prosecutor James L. Pfeiffer said in a joint release. Mosher, of Lopatcong, pleaded guilty to official misconduct in Hunterdon County Superior Court Wednesday, Pfeiffer said. She is required as per a plea agreement to spend five years in state prison with a four-year mandatory minimum before the poss…
Allentown, PA
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Feds: Allentown Woman Gets 75 Years In Prison For Using Stolen IDs To File Taxes
An Allentown woman was sentenced to 75 years behind bars, and must pay $857,000 to the federal government for allegedly stealing victims' identities and using them to obtain significant tax refunds, authorities said. Marien Torres-Acevedo, 38, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the government between January 2015 to July 2016, according to Acting United States Attorney Bruce D. Brandler. Torres-Acevedo and her co-conspirators secured fraudulent U.S. Treasury checks and cashed them at various check-cashing businesses, including several in Pennsylvania, Brandler said. Torres-Aceved…
Worcester, MA
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Ex-House Ethics Committee Chairman Admits To Spending Campaign Money On Lavish Lifestyle
A heavily in-debt ex-Massachusetts state representative, who once served as chairman of the House Ethics Committee, has admitted to funding his lavish lifestyle with public money and fraudulent bank loans. On Wednesday, Feb. 24, former state representative David M. Nangle, 60, pleaded guilty in U.S. Senior District Court to 10 counts of wire fraud, 4 counts of bank fraud, 4 counts of making false statements to a bank, and 5 counts of filing false tax returns, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Massachusetts said. Nangle, a Democrat, represented Massachusetts’ 17th Middlesex District, which include…
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