A federal grand jury has indicted a Greendale man on eight counts of tax fraud.

The indictment handed down Tuesday accuses Arvind Ahuja of filing false tax returns and failing to report $8.7 million held in foreign accounts.

The U.S. Department of Justice says Ahuja failed to report the bank accounts to the Internal Revenue Service on four recent tax returns. The DOJ says he also failed to report more than $1.2 million in interest income from the accounts.

Defense attorney Dan K. Webb released a statement saying Ahuja was innocent, and that the government had made a “colossal mistake.” Webb says the bank failed to issue documents stating Ahuja’s interest income.

The charges carry a maximum penalty of 52 years in prison and a $3 million fine.

If you have been charged with a crime such as tax fraud, failing to pay taxes or any type of white collar crime,  contact criminal defense lawyer Robert I. Kahn at (210) 225-6600 for a free consultation.

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A San Antonio lawyer has been charged with three counts of willfully failing to file income tax returns, leaving him owning $120,000.

Juan J. Calderon, who has been licensed in Texas since 1995 and served as a legal adviser to the League of United Latin American Citizens, could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

He is scheduled to make an initial court appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Pamela Mathy on April 28.

A federal court affidavit filed Friday alleges that in 2004, 2005 and 2006.  “Calderon enriched himself with over $600,000 in income by simply letting another person utilize his attorney’s license to settle hundreds of personal injury cases with various major insurance companies from his law office.”

Records identify the other person as Rodrigo Crispin, who was charged last year in an unrelated case with two counts of filing false tax returns related to his involvement in a business known as Northwest Pain Management Clinic.

In the Calderon case, the affidavit alleges he “did little to nothing to collect the millions and millions of dollars in insurance claim monies paid to his law office; instead he merely served as attorney of record.”

To collect, Calderon would write a check from his lawyer’s trust account to his name, then deposit it in his personal bank account or cash it, the affidavit says.

“Defendant Calderon admitted he was aware of his requirement to file a federal income tax return to the IRS for the tax years 2004,2005 and 2006 and he had not due to laziness and procrastination,” IRS special agent Jason Gamez says in the affidavit.

In lieu of filing tax returns, Calderon would write a check to the IRS to pay some of what he owed, the affidavit says, adding he admitted to agents he knew he was paying only a portion of the total.

It says Calderon used the unreported income to buy San Antonio Spurs season ticket packages and a 2001 Chevrolet Corvette, support his former fiancee and lavish her with jewelry and other gifts, travel, renovate his San Antonio home and pay off student loans he incurred while attending Baylor University.

Crispin is listed in LULAC newsletters as litigation administrator at Calderon’s law office on the South Side.

Crispin’s Facebook page identifies him as an attorney, but the State Bar of Texas does not show anyone by that name licensed to practice law in the state.

His federal criminal case alleges he knowingly and falsely reported nearly $330,000 in expenses on his income tax forms in 2003 and 2004.

Crispin has pleaded not guilty.  His lawyer, Jimmy Parks Jr., declined to comment Tuesday, noting a trial is set for May 23.

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A New Braunfels businessman and his wife were each sentenced Wednesday to five years probation for dodging $491,005 in taxes by making misrepresentations to the Internal Revenue Service.

Ronald Sober, who pleaded guilty to causing the tax loss from 2002 to 06 was also fined $250,000 by U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez.  He added a $1,000 fine to the prison term he handed to wife Candace Sober for her guilty plea to impeding tax collection.

Ronald Sober faced 30 to 37 months in prison, while sentencing guidelines recommended 10 to 16 months for his wife.

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An employee leasing services executive was arrested Monday in one of San Antonio’s largest ever tax fraud  cases, accused of keeping $66 million in payroll taes that should have gone to the IRS.  Patrick Mire was charged in an ongoing investigation that has already produced a 29 county federal indictment unsealed Monday.

He is charged with two counts of mail fraud conspiracy, 23 counts of mail fraud, one count of money laundering conspiracy and three counts of money laundering.  He faces up to 20 years in prison on several of the charges.

More arrest are possible in the alleged scheme that authorities say started in the mid 1990′s.  Mire has been released after posting a 20k unsecured bond.

The question I have for my readers is,  how come this group is being questioned about $66 million over 20 years and Congress increased their persoanl fortune from 100 million to more than 1 billion in just the last two years.  With that fact on the table, who is really committing tax fraud, the company that doesnt pay their full share or a group of individuals using our taxes as their own personal piggy banks..

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He’s accused of bribery, filing false tax papers and he’s a Harris County commissioner.  Jerry Eversole has plead not guilty to federal bribery and income tax charges Tuesday.  Eversole also was indicted on a single count of conspiracy and two counts of filing false statements on his income taxes in 2003 and 2004. 

His friend Surface was indicted on one count of conspiracy and a count of paying a bribe.  He has also plead not guilty.  Both men were freed on $100,000 bail after their appearance in US magistrate Judge Nancy Johnson’s court.   If convicted Eversole could face a maximum punishment on the bribery charge of 10 years in prison and up to five years on the conspiracy charge.  The income tax charges carry maximum prison times of three years each.

These indictments follow nearly three years of investigation by the FBI.  The ongoing investigation became a frequent touch point for Democratic county candidates during the 2008 elections.

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A  federal judge issued an arrest warrant for an area podiatrist after he failed to show up for a hearing Thursday on charges of cheating on his taxes.  Donald Robinson faxed papers to the federal courthouse in San Antonio stating that his hearing had been canceled and that he had issued a $300 million dollar warrant naming himself as the surety though he has no authority, Chief US District Judge Fred Biery said.

He said he didnt show up to his hearing because he believed he was working it out with the IRS.  He also stated that he was too scared to go to court because of his heart condition, I was hoping they would accept my record but obviously not. 

A federal grand jury indicted Robinson in August on four counts of subscribing to a false income tax return or statement.  The indictment said he signed off on tax returns that significantly underreported his income for 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006.  It also alleges he denied having any interest in or signatory authority over financial accounts in foreign countries when he actually did

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