Mississippi Business Journal » tax fraud http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 17 May 2013 22:01:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Feds want nearly $1M in restitution from former attorney http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/21/feds-want-nearly-1m-in-restitution-from-former-attorney/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feds-want-nearly-1m-in-restitution-from-former-attorney http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/21/feds-want-nearly-1m-in-restitution-from-former-attorney/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:52:01 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=71782 ABERDEEN — The U.S. government is seeking $914,162 in restitution unpaid by a former Mississippi attorney convicted in a tax and mail fraud case in 2009. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports prosecutors filed a payment affidavit this week in U.S. District Court in Oxford. U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock has scheduled an April 2 [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/21/feds-want-nearly-1m-in-restitution-from-former-attorney/feed/ 0 Owner of tax service business gets 10 years, repaying $5.5M http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/12/27/owner-of-tax-service-business-gets-10-years-repaying-5-5m/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=owner-of-tax-service-business-gets-10-years-repaying-5-5m http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/12/27/owner-of-tax-service-business-gets-10-years-repaying-5-5m/#comments Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:08:41 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=50089 GREENVILLE — The owner of an income tax service convicted of filing doctored tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to repay $5.5 million. Mary Wesley was convicted in May in federal court in Greenville of one count of conspiracy to defraud the government and [...]

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