Tax Fraud

Oldest Private Swiss Bank Denies Claims It Helped Americans Evade Billions In Taxes

Reuters | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Offshore Bank Accounts, Swiss Courts, Video, Switzerland, Reuters, Swiss Banks, Tax Evasion, Tax Fraud, Judge Jed Rakoff, Wegelin, Business News

NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - Wegelin & Co, the oldest Swiss private bank, is digging in its heels against a U.S. criminal charge that it conspir...

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They're Stealing Tax Refunds From The Dead

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 05.15.2012

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A number of families are losing not only their loved ones, but also their loved ones' tax refunds. Identity thieves have stolen the tax refunds of ...

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Former NFL Players Arrested For Tax Fraud

The Huffington Post | Emily Cohn | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Michael Bennett, Louis Gachelin, Nfl, William Joseph, Tax Fraud, South Florida, Identity Theft, Money News

Michael Bennett and William Joseph, two former National League Football players, were arrested by the FBI on Monday and are being charged with identit...

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Cops: Man Tries To Eat Fraudulent Tax Returns At FLL

Huffington Post | Christiana Lilly | Posted 05.09.2012

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A Florida man was arrested at the airport after he bit off more than he could chew during tax season. Authorities say Marc Saint Juste, 45, of Tama...

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PHOTOS: Chicago's Most Notorious Tax Fraudsters

Posted 04.17.2012

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Considering Chicago's reputation as home to the nation's largest concentration of corrupt elected officials, it is not terribly surprising that the Se...

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Someone Else May Have Filed Your Taxes

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Tax Scam, Tax Scammers, Federal Tax Return, Identity Theft, 2011 Taxes, Turbo Tax, Tax Day, Tax Day April 17, Fraud, Turbotax, Tax Refunds, Tax Returns, Scam, Tax Return, Fraudulent Tax Return, Tax Refund, Tax Fraud, Tax Return Fraud, Money News

Mike Bucalo Jr., 71, has never lived in Miami. He's spent the past 25 years in Akron, Ohio. Yet according to his 2011 tax return filed in January, he ...

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Disgraced Accountant Accused Of Helping 'Millionaire Madam'

| Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Upper East Side, Prostitution, Jonas Gayer, Jaynie-Mae-Baker, New York News, Anna Gristina, Tax Fraud, Ny News, Andrew J Maloney, New York News

By Murray Weiss, Shayna Jacobs and Adam Nichols, DNAinfo Staff MANHATTAN — A disgraced accountant and former IRS agent has been accused of helpin...

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Beware Of Free Money

AP | Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Elderly Scammed, Tax Refunds, Oklahoma Ag, Free Money, Oklahoma, Tax Fraud, Tax Credit, Tax-Scams, Money News

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Attorney General Scott Pruitt is warning Oklahomans about fraudulent tax refund schemes that involve criminals that are trying to che...

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Guess Who's Getting Targeted By Tax Scammers Again

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Financial Fraud, Income Tax, Older Americans, Senior Citizens, Social Security, Irs, Internal Revenue Service, College Tax Credit, College Tuition, Tax Scams, Financial Scams, Tax Fraud, Tax Cheats, American Opportunity Tax Credit, Video, Business News

It's tax season -- which means that scammers are once again trying to rip off the elderly. The Internal Revenue Service issued a notice on Monday ...

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Are You Being Scammed?

Emily Cohn | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Taxes, Irs, Earned Income Tax Credit, Identity Theft, Charitable Deduction, Tax Day 2012, Tax Scams, Phishing, Federal Tax Forms, Fake Tax Forms, Tax Fraud, Taxpayers, Taxpayer Tips, Tax Deductions, Money News

Every year during tax season, scam artists try and break off a piece of Americans' tax payments. "Scam artists will tempt people in-person, on-lin...

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Swiss Bank Charged By U.S. For Helping Americans Evade Taxes

AP | Posted 02.03.2012

Read More: St. Gallen, Taxes, Wegelin & Co., Video, Tax Evasion, Tax Fraud, Raiffeisen Group, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Justice Department, Business News

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Justice Department says it has indicted Switzerland's oldest private bank, claiming it conspired with Americans and others to h...

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Seven Charged In Huge Florida Tax Fraud Scheme

AP | Posted 12.07.2011

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Seven people are facing federal tax fraud charges in Florida in a $120 million scheme authorities say involved clients in 30 ...

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Tax Evasion Crackdown Could Mean Big Losses For Swiss Banks

AP | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Private Banking Industry, Booz & Co., Video, Switzerland, Swiss Bank Accounts, Swiss Banks, Tax Evasion, Tax Fraud, Offshore Accounts, Business News

GENEVA -- A study by consultancy firm Booz & Co. claims Swiss banks stand to lose 1.1 billion Swiss francs ($1.2 billion) in annual revenue because of...

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Man That Wrote A Book About Tax Evasion Convicted

Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Donald Turner, Irs, Defrauding Irs, Denver News, Internal Revenue Service, Avoid Paying Taxes, Tax Free! How the Super Rich Do It, Denver Colorado, Tax Evasion, Tax Fraud, Donald Wood, Denver News

A former Littleton, Colo. resident, Donald Turner (also known as Donald Wood), has been found guilty of conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Ser...

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Court Rejects Wesley Snipes Appeal Of Tax Conviction

AP | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Income Tax, Video, Wesley Snipes Trial, Celebrity Justice, Wesley Snipes Tax Fraud, Atlanta, Tax Fraud, Georgia Crime, Wesley Snipes, Wesley-Snipes-Conviction, Crime News

By Associated Press ATLANTA — A federal appeals court in Atlanta has turned away the latest attempt by actor Wesley Snipes to get his conviction ...

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Owners Of World's Largest Liquor Store In Big Trouble

The Huffington Post | Andrea Rael | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: City of Thornton, Largest Liquor Store in the World, Guiness Book of World Records, Colorado Organized Crime Control Act, Sawaged Brothers, Colorado Department of Revenue, Tax Fraud, Denver District Attorney General, Denver News

DaveCo Liquors has been the largest liquor store in the world since it opened in 2006, according to the Guiness Book of World Records. According t...

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Tax Fraud From Behind Bars

Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Prison Tax Fraud, Tax Fraud, Politics News

Maybe you will get lucky and get a refund from the IRS. Lots of prisoners try to get one too - by lying to Uncle Sam. Every year they rake in multip...

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The Taxman Cometh

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bureau of Prisons, Internal-Revenue-Service, Tax Fraud, Prison Inmates, Taxes, Politics News

"It was a true. . . as turnips is. It was as true. . . as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them." -- Charles Dickens, "David Copperfield" Talk a...

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Chicago Man Pleads Guilty For Role In Israeli-American Tax Fraud Ring

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tax Fraud, Chicago Crime, Tax Fraud Ring, Israeli-American Tax Fraud Ring, Marvin Berkowitz, Chicago News

CHICAGO — A Chicago man who authorities say led an Israeli-American crime ring specializing in tax fraud and money laundering has pleaded guilty...

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2 Plead Guilty In Seattle To Massive Tax Scheme

AP | GENE JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Wood Johnson, Charles H. Wilk, Quellos Group Llc, WA Tax Fraud, Seattle Tax Fraud, Charles-Wilk, Haim Saban, Seattle Tax Scheme, Tax Shelter, Tax Fraud, Jeffrey Greenstein, Business News

SEATTLE — Two Seattle-area men pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges stemming from an illegal tax shelter that enabled wealthy clients &ndash...

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U.S. Chamber of Commerce Accused of Tax Fraud

nytimes.com | ERIC LICHTBLAU | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- With a war chest rivaling that of the Republican Party itself, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has emerged in the last year as perhaps the ...

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Whistleblower Birkenfeld Asks Obama For Pardon

bloomberg.com | David Voreacos | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fraud, Ubs, Pardons, Whistleblowers, Switzerland, Irs, Brad Birkenfeld, UBS Tax Fraud, Internal Revenue Service, Tax Fraud, Carl Levin, Barack Obama, Securities and Exchange Commission KPMG, Business News

Birkenfeld, 45, has asked President Barack Obama to commute a 40-month term he began in January at Schuylkill Federal Correctional Institution for his...

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Robert C. Blum, Contractor With Blagojevich Ties, Charged With Tax Fraud

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Chris Kelly, Castle Construction, Irs, Robert C Blum, Illinois Crime, Rod Blagojevich, Robert Blum, Tax Fraud, Chicago News

A construction contractor with political ties to ousted former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his onetime fund-raiser Chris Kelly was charged Tuesday with u...

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Identity Thieves Filed For $4 Million In Tax Refunds Using Names Of Living And Dead

Wired | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fraud, Steven Travis Brawner, Identity Theft, Daniel David Rigmaiden, Identity Thieves, Fake IDs, Tax Fraud, Ransom Marion Carter, Technology News

The thieves operated their scheme for at least three years from January 2005 to April 2008, allegedly filing more than 1,900 fraudulent tax returns in...

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Giacometti or Jail

Paul Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art Succession Planning, Art Collecting, Tax Fraud, Giacometti-Sculpture, Chicago News

When I owned a gallery, I had to contend with the shenanigans of a few of my patrons who were trying to avoid paying sales tax.

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