Drizzle Fog/Mist 45°
Tag:

IRS–Criminal Investigation

Police & Fire
Rotten To The Corps: Fort Lee Man Gets 6 Years For Using Stolen Military IDs To Get Tax Refunds Rotten To The Corps: Fort Lee Man Gets 6 Years For Using Stolen Military IDs To Get Tax Refunds
Rotten To The Corps: Fort Lee Man Gets 6 Years For Using Stolen Military IDs To Get Tax Refunds A Fort Lee man who got tax refunds by stealing current and former military members’ identities must spend the next six years in federal prison. Shope Oluwo, 35, has to serve the entire plea-bargained sentence handed by Chief U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson in Trenton on Friday because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. Oluwo conspired with others to steal personal identifying information from current or former members of the U.S. Army and create fake military identification cards and fraudulent W-2 forms bearing the victims’ names, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. In a…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Franklin Lakes Doctor Gets 18 Months In Fed Pen For Test Company Bribes Franklin Lakes Doctor Gets 18 Months In Fed Pen For Test Company Bribes
Franklin Lakes Doctor Gets 18 Months In Fed Pen For Test Company Bribes FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. -- A physician from Franklin Lakes was sentenced to a plea-bargained 18 months in federal prison Wednesday for his role in a massive test-referral bribery scheme. Basel Batarseh, 57, will have to serve the entire term: There is no parole in the federal prison system. Batarseh, who had an internal medicine practice in West New York, previously admitted that he took more than $104,000 in payoffs from employees and associates of Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS) of Parsippany between November 2007 and August 2010. In exchange, Batarseh said, he generated more t…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco