Actor Stephen Baldwin was recently arrested for tax evasion in his home state of New York. He is charged with not filing his state taxes for the past three years, resulting in owed back taxes of $350,000, which does not include any applicable penalties. Baldwin...
A financial adviser faces multiple charges for tax crimes and other crimes. He currently faces five charges for mail fraud, 13 charges for interstate transportation of goods gained in a fraudulent manner, 10 charges of money laundering and three charges for tax...
A Chicago politician has been charged with tax evasion after being accused of diverting in excess of $225,000 from campaign coffers to pay for gambling and other personal expenses. The former police officer who is now a politician pleaded not guilty to four tax...
A man who conducted seminars in the United States and Canada regarding commercial real estate investment has been convicted of multiple counts of tax evasion. According to tax department officials, the man failed to file income tax returns between the years of 2001...
A new banking law known as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance act, or FACTA, is set to bring closer scrutiny on people in Massachusetts and elsewhere around the country who have significant assets with financial institutions outside the U.S. The law could serve to...
A man who is charged with 22 counts of tax evasion over a period of six years is the president and treasurer of a landscaping company in Amesbury, Massachusetts. He has held his position with the company since 1997. The state attorney general has accused the man of...
A tax controversy may have arisen after a federal appeals court issued a decision in regard to the Defense of Marriage Act, known as DOMA. The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York declared that the law is unconstitutional. Another federal appeals court...
An employee who once worked at the District of Columbia's tax office has pled guilty in federal court to conspiracy to defraud the government as well as first-degree theft. These charges stem from tax crimes allegedly committed while the woman was working part-time at...
Professional football fans in Massachusetts and around the New England region may be familiar with the name Michael Bennett. Bennett, who played for several years in the NFL, maybe most notably with the Minnesota Vikings, pleaded guilty to wire fraud earlier this year...
A man from Mendon, Massachusetts, was recently convicted of a tax crime after the IRS claimed that he under-reported the income that he received from advertisers on his blog. He was convicted of filing a false income tax return at the federal court in Boston,...
