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LIVE OAK BUSINESS MAN SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR TAX FRAUD

Jacksonville, Florida – U.S. District Judge Henry Lee Adams, Jr., today sentenced Joseph Barney Wainwright, Jr., a 44-year old resident of Live Oak, Florida, to 18 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by one year of supervised release, for filing false federal income tax returns.
Wainwright pled guilty [...]

Mexico Beach

FORMER TOUCAN’S RESTAURANT OWNER SENTENCED TO
PRISON FOR TAX EVASION, FIREARM AND DRUG POSSESSION
Panama City – Thomas F. Kirwin, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced today the sentence of Paul Gregory Francis, of Mexico Beach, Florida to forty-one months’ imprisonment for tax evasion, possession of a methamphetamine, and possession of a firearm [...]

Tallahassee

FORMER INVESTMENT ADVISOR PLEADS GUILTY TO BANKRUPTCY, TAX FRAUD
TALLAHASSEE — Thomas F. Kirwin, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, today announced that Don W. Reinhard, 48, a former Tallahassee investment advisor, entered guilty pleas in United States District Court in Tallahassee to seven criminal offenses involving making a false loan application, bankruptcy [...]

Lake Worth

Louis Wayne Ratfield, a former Lake Worth, Fla., tax return preparer was sentenced today to 151 months’ imprisonment for his participation in a tax fraud scheme designed to hide income and assets in bogus trusts, announced Richard T. Morrison, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Tax Division, R. Alexander Acosta, U.S. Attorney for [...]

Naples

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A federal judge has permanently barred Max Holcher of Naples, Fla., from promoting a scheme he calls “Tax Engineering” and from preparing federal income tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. According to the government complaint in the civil injunction suit, Holcher operates businesses known as Holcher & Company and [...]

West Palm Beach

WASHINGTON – The United States has sued Robert Cusenza, a West Palm Beach tax return preparer, seeking to bar him permanently from the tax preparation business, the Justice Department announced today. The government’s complaint asks the court to order Cusenza to stop preparing returns and to turn over his customer list to the Justice Department.
According [...]

Bradenton

WASHINGTON – A federal court has permanently barred Harold Mette of Bradenton, Fla., from preparing federal income tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. Mette, who has a Ph.D. degree and calls his business “The Tax Doctor,” consented to the permanent injunction order, which was entered by U.S. District Judge Richard A. Lazzara [...]

Port Richey

WASHINGTON – A federal judge in Tampa, Fla., has permanently barred a Port Richey, Fla., tax preparer and his firm from preparing federal tax returns, the Justice Department announced today. U.S. District Court Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich of the Middle District of Florida entered the permanent injunction against Frank Lighty and his firm, Lighty and [...]

Fort Myers

WASHINGTON – Sheri Redekker Barry and Warren Thomas Barry, a wife and husband who are both real estate agents in Fort Myers, Fla., have been sentenced to prison for conspiracy and failure to file tax returns, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. U.S. District Court Judge John E. Steele on Monday [...]

Ft. Lauderdale

WASHINGTON – A federal court has permanently barred a Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.,-area woman and her company from preparing federal income tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. According to the government complaint in the case, Carole Exantus of Plantation, Fla., operated a company called J’s Corporation in Miami. The court found that J’s [...]