Former Nevada Business Owner and Salesman Sentenced for Conspiring to Defraud the United States

Two Nevada males had been sentenced to jail right this moment for conspiring to defraud the IRS.

Saud Alessa was sentenced to 13 months in jail and Jeffrey Bowen was sentenced to 60 days in jail. After a federal jury trial in November 2021, Alessa and Bowen had been each convicted on the conspiracy cost, and Alessa additionally was convicted on tax evasion and false tax return fees.

In line with courtroom paperwork and proof offered at trial, from 2010 via roughly March 2014, Alessa, Bowen and one other co-conspirator, Jackie Hayes, sought to thwart efforts by the IRS to gather greater than $500,000 in tax liabilities owed by Alessa for tax years 1998 to 2007. As a part of the scheme, Hayes entered right into a fee association with Bowen, the proprietor of a vacuum cleaner distributor, J&L Distributing Inc. (J&L), the place commissions really earned by Alessa for his work at J&L had been falsely recorded within the firm’s books as commissions earned by Hayes. Hayes and Bowen then submitted tax kinds and filings to the IRS falsely reporting that Hayes had earned the revenue. This scheme allowed Alessa to evade IRS assortment efforts and the fee of his excellent federal tax debt. To additional conceal his revenue and property, Alessa filed false 2012 and 2013 particular person tax returns, and in February 2013, he filed a chapter petition falsely reporting no revenue.

Along with imprisonment, Chief U.S. District Choose Miranda M. Du ordered Alessa and Bowen to every serve three years of supervised launch and to pay over $500,000 in restitution to the USA.

Hayes beforehand pleaded responsible and was sentenced in February 2022 to 2 months in jail for her position within the conspiracy.

Performing Deputy Assistant Lawyer Basic Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Division’s Tax Division, Performing U.S. Lawyer Christopher Chiou for the District of Nevada and Particular Agent in Cost Albert A. Childress of IRS-Felony Investigation made the announcement. They recommended particular brokers of IRS-Felony Investigation, which performed the investigation, and members of the U.S. Trustee Program, which uncovered the charged conduct through the supervision of the administration of a Chapter 7 chapter case filed by Alessa.

Trial Attorneys Michael Landman and Eric Taffet of the Justice Division’s Tax Division prosecuted the case.