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Prominent NJ Attorney Stole $2M From Family's Offshore Bank Account, Feds Charge Prominent NJ Attorney Stole $2M From Family's Offshore Bank Account, Feds Charge
Prominent NJ Attorney Stole $2M From Family's Offshore Bank Account, Feds Charge A prominent attorney from Jersey City went to great lengths to swindle $2 million from a family he represented, federal authorities charged. The family had retained James R. Lisa, 67, to gather millions that had been moved into offshore bank accounts by relatives decades ago and to resolve any tax issues that arose as a result, they said. Soon after being retained, he moved more than $6 million back into the United States but told the family the funds still remained offshore, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. Lisa kept them waiting for two years before giving them $4 million while cl…

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70-Something Brothers Who Owned Popular Jersey Shore Pizzeria Face Sentencing For Lying To IRS 70-Something Brothers Who Owned Popular Jersey Shore Pizzeria Face Sentencing For Lying To IRS
70-Something Brothers Who Owned Popular Jersey Shore Pizzeria Face Sentencing For Lying To IRS UPDATE: The saga of two brothers in their 70s who got caught paying the employees of their popular Jersey Shore pizzeria under the proverbial table is nearing its end. The once-proud co-owners of Mario's Pizzeria in Ocean City, Giuseppe "Joe" Cannuscio, 74, and Ernesto Cannuscio, 70, are scheduled to be sentenced for tax evasion this fall. Both men took deals from the government rather than risk trial, pleading guilty in federal court in Camden to conspiring to evade taxes within a couple weeks of one another. Employees at Mario's, which was founded in 1977, were paid off the books over th…

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Former Rockland Owner Of Failed Nursing Homes In NJ, 11 Other States Charged In $39M Tax Dodge Former Rockland Owner Of Failed Nursing Homes In NJ, 11 Other States Charged In $39M Tax Dodge
Former Rockland Owner Of Failed Nursing Homes In NJ, 11 Other States Charged In $39M Tax Dodge An insurance broker from Rockland County who ran a failed nationwide network of nearly 100 nursing homes from an office over a Bergen County pizzeria ducked nearly $39 million in payroll taxes, a federal indictment unsealed on Monday alleges. Joseph Schwartz, 62, was arrested at his Suffern home last Thursday. A federal judge in Newark released him to home confinement hours later, with conditions, pending trial. Then came the unsealing announcement on Monday, also out of Newark. Schwartz’s Skyline Healthcare LLC amassed 95 nursing homes in 11 states nationwide in less than two years – incl…

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Real Pain In The Glass: NJ Window Firm Exec Gets 2 Years In Fed Pen For Stiffing IRS By $1.5M Real Pain In The Glass: NJ Window Firm Exec Gets 2 Years In Fed Pen For Stiffing IRS By $1.5M
Real Pain In The Glass: NJ Window Firm Exec Gets 2 Years In Fed Pen For Stiffing IRS By $1.5M UPDATE: A 73-year-old Morris County executive who admitted short-changing the government by $1.15 million on employment taxes was sentenced to a plea-bargained two years in federal prison. Stephen Walloga will have to serve just about all of the sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. U. S. District Court Judge Stanley R. Chesler also ordered him to serve three years of supervised release and pay the full $1,150,487 in restitution. As vice president of the Rockaway-based Pain In The Glass window tinting company, Walloga was responsible for collecting, accountin…

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Jersey Shore Paving Company Owner Goes To Fed Pen For Stiffing IRS $435,270 Jersey Shore Paving Company Owner Goes To Fed Pen For Stiffing IRS $435,270
Jersey Shore Paving Company Owner Goes To Fed Pen For Stiffing IRS $435,270 The owner/operator of a Jersey Shore asphalt and concrete maintenance company must spend a year and a day in federal prison after shorting the IRS $435,270.58 in payroll taxes. Donato DiPasquale, 57, of Brick has already paid up $307,404 of the money, said Michael Montanez, the special agent in charge of IRS-Criminal Investigation’s Newark Field Office A federal judge in Trenton this week sentenced DiPasquale to the plea-bargained term, along with three years of supervised release. He also must pay the remaining $127,865.79 that he owes the government, Montanez said. He must serve the…

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by Jerry DeMarco