QUEEN2
10月前
WPUR CEO Barry A Ginsberg:
BOSTON – A Peabody tax preparer was sentenced yesterday to federal prison for defrauding small-business clients out of nearly $900,000 that his clients had given him to pay their federal payroll taxes.
Barry Ginsberg, 63, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Leo T. Sorokin to 21 months in prison, six months of home confinement following release from prison, and ordered to pay restitution. In June 2015, Ginsberg pleaded guilty to multiple counts of mail and wire fraud, preparing false tax returns, and obstructing the IRS.
Ginsberg owned and operated a payroll tax business that had a number of so-called “escrow” clients. Ginsberg not only prepared their payroll tax returns, but these clients also sent him money on a regular basis for the purpose of paying their payroll taxes to the IRS. Instead of doing so, however, Ginsberg took the money and used it for other business or personal reasons. As a result, the defendant’s clients—some of whom had trusted him for years—became significantly indebted to the IRS over time.
To cover up his scheme, Ginsberg falsified his clients’ tax returns, which he was hired to prepare, indicating that the clients’ payroll taxes had been paid in full, when they had not. When asked by clients about their mysterious IRS debts, Ginsberg gave them a litany of false excuses, including blaming the IRS and his own staff.
United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz and William P. Offord, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation in Boston, made the announcement today. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Eric P. Christofferson and Vassili Thomadakis of Ortiz’s Economic Crimes Unit.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/peabody-tax-preparer-sentenced-prison-fraud#:~:text=BOSTON%20%E2%80%93%20A%20Peabody%20tax%20preparer,District%20Court%20Judge%20Leo%20T.
wannabeeriche
2年前
From at least June 2017 to June 2022, Defendants—led by Philip Verges—perpetrated a scheme to pump and dump into the market more than $112 million of stock in certain penny stock companies. Verges designed the scheme so that Blue Citi (owned by R. Malin and L. Tilton (in his individual capacity), JDT (owned by Tilton), and other accomplices that Verges nominated (the “Other Nominees”; collectively with Blue Citi, Tilton, and JDT, the “Nominees”) received heavily discounted shares in five penny stock companies: Alternet Systems, Inc. (“ALYI”), Priority Aviation, Inc. (“PJET”), Puration, Inc. (“PURA”), Vaycaychella, Inc. (“VAYK”), and WaterPure International, Inc. (“WPUR”) (collectively, the “PSCs” and individually, a “PSC”). The Nominees ultimately received at least 5.2 billion shares of stock in the PSCs at an 86.64% discount and then proceeded to dump those shares into the market. Blue Citi, Tilton, and JDT alone generated more than $52 million in trading proceeds.
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS DALLAS DIVISION Case No.: 3:23:cv-02146
BottomBounce
3年前
$WPUR WaterPure International, Inc., a development stage company, manufactures and markets atmospheric water generators (AWG) for home/small office use and office or commercial use. Its AWG harvests drinking water from ambient air. The company sells its products under the WaterPure brand name through a network of distributors in the United States, France, the United Arab Emirates, the Cayman Islands, Great Britain, Columbia, Costa Rica, and Mexico. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania.