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Buffalo

WASHINGTON – East Aurora, N.Y., chiropractor and tax defier John Weisberg was sentenced today by U.S. Magistrate Judge Hugh B. Scott in Buffalo to 21 months in prison, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. The court also ordered that Weisberg, as a condition of supervised release, cooperate with the IRS in filing [...]

Brooklyn

August 3, 2009
NEW YORK RABBI PLEADS GUILTY TO SCHEME TO DEFRAUD I.R.S.
Four Other Defendants Scheduled to Enter Guilty Pleas this Afternoon
LOS ANGELES – The Grand Rabbi of Spinka, a religious group within Orthodox Judaism, pleaded guilty this morning to a criminal conspiracy charge, admitting that he worked with others to obstruct the Internal Revenue Service [...]

Staten Island

Rapper and actor Clifford Smith, better known to fans as Method Man, was arrested Monday and faces charges of failing to pay taxes, the district attorney in Richmond County, New York, said
Smith, 38, owes the state nearly $33,000 for New York State income tax returns that he did not file between 2004 and 2007, district [...]