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The DA's office alleges Bianca Rodriguez and Yonkers Union Car Service, aka F&B Car Service LLC, committed tax fraud between 2010 and 2014, including failure to file tax returns, reports lohud.com.
The new charges are in addition to the school-transportation investigation of the company billing the school district for student-transportation services that “never occurred” from July 2009 to April 2014.
According to the new indictment filed on Sept. 25, Rodriguez failed to report $432,000 in earning and failed to pay more than $13,000 in taxes, said lohud.com.
The only charge against the car service is a failure to file corporate tax returns for three straight years.
Court records show Rodriguez was arraigned Sept. 28 and that she pleaded not guilty. She is free on $5,000 bail, said lohud.com.
The indictment says the largest amount of tax evasion took place in 20111 when it says Rodriguez failed to report $123,746 in personal income, lohud reported.
The level of fraud committed by Rodriguez and others related to the car service was outlined in a 2016 report by Yonker's Inspector General, Brendan McGrath. He reported that monitoring of school taxi and bus contracts was so lax that Yonkers was defrauded of nearly $160,000.
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