Quellos Group founder and CEO Jeff Greenstein and attorney Charles H. Wilk were indicted in June 2009 for aiding in the filing of a false tax return and conspiracy to defraud the government. They pleaded guilty in September of this year. Quellos’ clients have paid $240 million in back taxes. […]
Category: Tax Crimes
In 2007, Arthur Farnsworth of Bucks County, Penn., was tried for failing to pay federal income taxes. Farnsworth’s defense was his belief that the income tax was voluntary. His argument failed to sway the jury, and he was sentenced to 27 months in prison. Try as they might, many people […]
A former Louisiana state senator is accused of failing to pay $190,000 in federal taxes, and an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent says he spent 10 years investigating the case. Ed Handel, who worked for the IRS for more than 30 years, testified during the trial of former Sen. Charles […]
After 2 years of appeals over actor Wesley Snipes’ 2008 conviction on three misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file taxes, a recent development may have given Snipes’ defense team new legal ammunition. Kenneth I. Starr, Snipes’ former financial advisor and a key witness in the case against the actor, […]