by Michael Hogberg, EA | Aug 5, 2022 | Enforcement Updates
August 5, 2022 U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Frank R. Parlato, Jr. pleaded guilty to willful failure to file returns involving cash transactions of more than $10,000 before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum...
by Michael Hogberg, EA | Aug 4, 2022 | State Tax
August 4, 2022 Wake County businessman Joseph Patrick O’Keefe, 56, pleaded guilty in Wake County Superior Court yesterday to five counts of Embezzlement of State Property. The felony tax charges were filed by the North Carolina Department of Revenue. Superior Court...
by Michael Hogberg, EA | Aug 4, 2022 | Enforcement Updates
August 4, 2022 A Little Rock lawyer has pleaded guilty to his involvement in a scheme to defraud the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of more than $11.5 million that was intended to benefit farmers who had been discriminated against. Everett Martindale pleaded...
by Michael Hogberg, EA | Aug 3, 2022 | Enforcement Updates
August 3, 2022 A California businessman pleaded guilty yesterday to willfully failing to account for and pay over employment taxes to the IRS. According to court documents, Larry Kudsk, of Berkeley, operated two construction businesses, Kudsk Construction Inc. and M....
by Michael Hogberg, EA | Aug 3, 2022 | Enforcement Updates
August 3, 2022 A Swampscott man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with a scheme to defraud the Internal Revenue Service by falsely inflating taxpayer’s federal income tax refunds and diverting a portion of those refunds to accounts...