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Washington Township, NJ
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Washington Township Man Made $545K Filing Phony Tax Returns: Feds
A 44-year-old Washington Township man admitted to filing phony tax returns and stealing more than $180,000 from an elderly person on Thursday, May 22, authorities said. During the pandemic, James Mastrogiovanni engaged in a scheme to exploit COVID-19 relief programs to line his own pockets, U.S. Attorney Alina Habba said. From March 2021 through December 2022, Mastrogiovanni prepared phony tax returns, claiming tax refunds intended to help struggling small businesses by reducing employment taxes owed, Habba said. Neither Mastrogiovanni nor any of his family members owned or operated a busi…
Fairfield, CT
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Alert Issued For IRS 'Spoofing' Scam
It's tax time and with it comes a new warning that there's a twist to the usual IRS impersonation phone scam. Criminals are faking calls from the Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS), an independent organization within the Internal Revenue Service, the IRS said in the warning issued Friday, March 30. Similar to other IRS impersonation scams, the scammer makes unsolicited calls to the victim, falsely claiming to be from the IRS. But in the new wrinkle, the con artists have found a way to "spoof" the phone number of the TAS office in New York or Houston. The scammers then request personal inf…
Stamford, CT
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Stamford Trash-Hauling Owner Agrees To Pay $356K For Failing To File Taxes
A 71-year-old trash-hauling owner is facing prison time and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines after pleading guilty to failing to file tax returns for more than a decade in the Stamford area and parts of Westchester County. John Durham, the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced this week that Stamford resident Wayne Margarum has pleaded guilty to two counts of willful failure to file an income tax return after failing to do so for his business dating back to 2004. According to court documents and statements made in court, for more than 40 years, Margarum …
