January 3, 2013
As of Monday, Maine has adopted a new standard for who can be considered an independent contractor for Workers’ Compensation, unemployment insurance and other purposes. Until this week, the Maine Department of Labor, the Maine Workers’ Compensation Board and Maine Revenue Services each had different standards for who can be considered an independent contractor. This...…
January 3, 2013
Potsdam, NY, resident Timothy M. Schmidt plead guilty to signing and filing a false federal income tax return.
January 2, 2013
Online giving is leading the way for charitable donations, according to the latest findings by the Blackbaud Index.
January 2, 2013
After failing to reach a fiscal agreement and "stepping over the cliff," lawmakers figuratively spun their feet in the air, then turned back and found solid ground by reaching agreement that will prevent the otherwise automatic tax increases that would have hit all Americans. Those taxes would have resulted from the automatic expiration of the…
December 31, 2012
Man is accused of various violations at his tax practice, including preparing false tax-return forms with fabricated businesses and income, selling deceptive loan products, preparing false W-2 forms and filing tax returns without customer consent or authorization.
December 28, 2012
A Las Vegas real estate agent who took part in a mortgage fraud scheme that netted more than $10 million in fraudulent home loans was sentenced Wednesday by a federal judge to serve more than five years in prison.
December 27, 2012
A 49-year-old caregiver is facing theft charges for allegedly defrauding her 90-year-old client of more than $150,000.
December 26, 2012
With the "fiscal cliff" looming and the Obama administration desperately searching for new revenue, once-sacred cows -- from the home mortgage interest deduction to Social Security to Medicare -- all have been subjected to scrutiny.
December 26, 2012
Randall Silver, 43, of New Hyde Park, N.Y., pleaded guilty on December 13 to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering, and one count of wire fraud. SILVER was a Vice-President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer at the Oxford Collection Agency, Inc.
December 25, 2012
A former SunTrust Bank Vice President was sentenced to 10 months in federal prison for embezzlement and other related crimes Wednesday.
December 20, 2012
United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces the return by a grand jury of a fifty-seven-count indictment charging Rashia Wilson (27, Wimauma) and Maurice Larry (26, Tampa) with conspiracy and multiple counts of wire fraud, filing false tax returns, theft of government property, and aggravated identity theft. Wilson is charged with one count of conspiracy,…
December 20, 2012
A Montgomery accountant has been sentenced to 38 months in federal prison for embezzling about $440,000 from an elderly client's account, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Wednesday.