SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Former state senator and gubernatorial candidate Sam McCann has pleaded not guilty to federal charges alleging he illegally spent more than $200,000 in campaign funds on debts and personal expenses and to pay himself.
A Madison woman was sentenced Friday to a year and a day in federal prison for evading paying more than $3 million in taxes by skimming funds earned by video gambling machines in bars, authorities reported.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A once high-flying political fundraiser who prosecutors said gave illegal campaign contributions to Joe Biden, Lindsey Graham and a host of other U.S. politicians was sentenced Thursday to 12 years behind bars.
NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Manafort won’t face mortgage fraud charges in New York after the state’s highest court declined to revisit lower court decisions that barred prosecuting Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman on double jeopardy grounds.
Joseph Kott, 42, was charged with 17 counts of failing to account for and pay the federal income taxes withheld and Social Security and Medicare taxes due for his business, Alpha Electric LLC.
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Bar Refaeli must start nine months of community service next week as agreed in her plea deal over tax evasion charges.
Shibilski, who was defeated in 2002 in a bid for lieutenant governor, denies the allegations and has sued former business partners.
Dudley and Cherie Hellenbrand underreported cash they made from video gambling machines at the bowling alley, prosecutors said.
Jurors found La Crosse dentist Frederick G. Kriemelmeyer, 70, guilty Tuesday in federal court in Madison on four counts of tax evasion occurring between 2007 and 2015. Kriemelmeyer was convicted of tax fraud in 2007 and never paid the $135,337 a federal judge ordered him to pay then.
Sentencing has been set for for Dudley and Cherie Hellenbrand on Oct. 3, and for Tom Laugen on Oct. 4, before Chief U.S. District Judge James Peterson.
Frederick G. Kriemelmeyer, 70, who has a long history of ignoring U.S. tax law, was indicted Wednesday for tax evasion by a federal grand jury in Madison.
The 15,000-word Times report contradicts Trump's portrayal of himself as a self-made billionaire who started with just a $1 million loan from his father.
Tree-Ripe, where Thomas G. Paine as the treasurer, had not filed a corporate tax return since 1996 and owed $421,622 in taxes from 2008 to 2012 alone.
An Edgerton business owner has pleaded guilty to not paying payroll taxes withheld from employee paychecks in 2014.
Thomas G. Paine, 64, who was vice president and treasurer for G. W. Paine Inc., which sold produce under the business name of Tree Ripe Citrus Company, failed to file tax returns for tax years 2010 to 2012, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Madison said. Paine also concealed the business' income by making structured cash deposits of less than $10,000 to evade bank reporting requirements.
A Deerfield man who refused to pay taxes for years has been sentenced to 23 months in prison.
Thomas G. Paine, 63, allegedly failed to file corporate tax returns from 2010 through 2012 while he was the vice president and treasurer at G.W. Paine Inc., which sold produce under the name Tree Ripe Citrus Company, according to the Attorney's Office. Paine also attempted to conceal the company's income by structuring cash deposits to avoid reports to the U.S. Treasury, the Attorney's Office said.
A Tomah man who owns a tobacco shop has been charged with tax evasion for allegedly selling hundreds of thousands of his own rolled cigarettes at the shop without paying the state tax on the cigarettes.
A Verona man pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal income tax evasion.
One indictment accuses David Stott of Verona of under-reporting income he earned as a precious metals broker at his business, Colorado Gold.
Scott Bodley called strange and narcissistic by U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb for his attempts to keep the Internal Revenue Service from investigating him for not paying taxes.
Discovering that a con artist used your ID to file a fake return is unsettling, to say the least.
A company can throw up a sign, claim to be a tax preparer and then rip consumers off by creating a fake Schedule C, wrongly filing for education tax credits or making other tax moves to generate excessive refunds.
