McCauley Tax Law

Michael Avenatti became a household name as the attorney representing former adult film star Stormy Daniels in her case against President Donald Trump. But Avenatti’s most recent notoriety is strictly of his own doing. During a California Bar Association disciplinary hearing over allegations that he scammed a client out of $840,000, IRS agents arrested Avenatti on charges that he violated bail by committing a series of state and federal crimes while awaiting trial in New York. [ 182 more words ] http://www.mlotax.com/stormy-outlook-attorney-michael-aven/

New Jersey tax preparer Brian Day pleaded guilty to filing false tax returns and bank fraud in a scheme to misappropriate clients’ money and defraud the IRS. Day told his clients that they owed more money to the IRS than they actually did. He instructed them to write checks made out to the IRS and then altered the payee information on the checks to make them payable to one of his tax prep companies. [ 113 more words ] http://www.mlotax.com/bad-day-court/

Movita Johnson-Harrell, a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, has resigned from office after being accused of using funds for personal items from a non-profit she created to help people struggling with addiction, poverty and mental illness. She founded the non-profit, Motivations, Education & Consultation Associates (MECA), after losing four family members, her father, brother, cousin and son, to gun violence. [ 132 more words ] http://www.mlotax.com/making-profit-non-profit/

Vincent Celentano, the owner of several businesses in Florida and Michigan, has been indicted for tax evasion, employment tax fraud and other tax crimes. Celentano is accused of using more than $360,000 from his businesses’ bank accounts to pay for personal expenses, including credit card payments and fuel and sundry items for his yacht. That same year Celentano sold ownership in entities under his control for approximately 2.7 million dollars and asked for payment in a way that kept his accountants from accurately reporting the sale to the IRS. [ 144 more words ] http://www.mlotax.com/multiple-businesses-multiple-states-/

For more than 20 years, Denver resident, Lawrence Martin Birk, failed to pay federal income taxes. It wasn’t until the IRS began collection efforts that the owner of Terryall River Log Homes, which built and sold log homes, hired a tax firm to prepare eight years of returns. However, Birk left out a lot of information on the returns, including over $400,000 in retirement distributions that he funneled through a shell company. [ 104 more words ] http://www.mlotax.com/at-loggerheads-with-the-irs/