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Construction Company Owner and Employees Indicted for Wide-Ranging Tax and Financial Fraud Schemes
An indictment was unsealed today charging Arthur Nelson, of Staten Island, New York, and Sunny Isles Beach, Florida; Joseph Free, of Staten Island; Paul Vasquez, of Englishtown, New Jersey; and Ulysses Jude Devocion, of Queens County, New York, with various crimes including conspiring to defraud the IRS, tax evasion, willfully failing to withhold and pay over employment taxes, failing to file income tax returns, helping to file false corporate tax returns, interfering with the administration of the internal revenue laws, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, failure to file reports of foreign bank accounts, and obstruction of justice.
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An indictment was unsealed today charging Arthur Nelson, of Staten Island, New York, and Sunny Isles Beach, Florida; Joseph Free, of Staten Island; Paul Vasquez, of Englishtown, New Jersey; and Ulysses Jude Devocion, of Queens County, New York, with various crimes including conspiring to defraud the IRS, tax evasion, willfully failing to withhold and pay over employment taxes, failing to file income tax returns, helping to file false corporate tax returns, interfering with the administration of the internal revenue laws, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, failure to file reports of foreign bank accounts, and obstruction of justice.
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According to U.S. Department of Justice’s source item, Construction Company Owner and Employees Indicted for Wide-Ranging Tax and Financial Fraud Schemes, An indictment was unsealed today charging Arthur Nelson, of Staten Island, New York, and Sunny Isles Beach, Florida; Joseph Free, of Staten Island; Paul Vasquez, of Englishtown, New Jersey; and Ulysses Jude Devocion, of Queens County, New York, with various crimes including conspiring to defraud the IRS, tax evasion, willfully failing to withhold and pay over employment taxes, failing to file income tax returns, helping to file false corporate tax returns, interfering with the administration of the internal revenue laws, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, failure to file reports of foreign bank accounts, and obstruction of justice.
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