With tomorrow being Memorial Day, our troops overseas should be in your thoughts and prayers. I’ll be writing about some individuals who are praying to avoid ClubFed.
Let’s start in Georgia, where a Bozo tax preparer allegedly decided to take advantage of the telephone tax credit. Onessimus Govereh prepared 20 tax returns that had the telephone tax credit…only, according to the indictment, the amounts were drastically inflated to the tune of $568,675. That’s a lot of phone calls. He’s facing 20 counts of preparing false tax returns, and a lengthy stay at ClubFed if found guilty.
Last June we reported on the indictment of civil rights attorney Stephen Yagman. His trial began this past week in Los Angeles. If you believe the prosecution, Yagman deliberately hid his assets; if you believe the defense, Yagman moved his assets for personal reasons and to keep his domicile secret. Yagman stands accused of money laundering and bankruptcy fraud. We’ll update you as the trial proceeds.
>From San Antonio comes the case of the Kickapoo Seven. The seven (now six, as the government withdrew the charges against one of the defendants), three of the defendants switched their pleas from guilty to not guilty; one other defendant switched his plea last week. The four are part of a group that allegedly stole funds from an Indian casino in Eagle Pass, Texas and committed tax evasion and conspiracy. The four claim that they were either coerced into pleading guilty or victims of a conspiracy. Under their now disavowed plea bargain, they were looking at two or so years at ClubFed. If found guilty, they’ll be facing ten.
So if you can, don’t be coerced into evading taxes…or you may be following in the footsteps of these individuals and having an unhappy holiday.
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