August 16, 2023
The Sixth Circuit upheld a disbarred Michigan attorney's prison sentence of more than three years, saying his repeated opening and closing of different real estate companies to avoid $1.6 million in employment taxes constituted a sophisticated means of tax evasion that triggered a longer sentence.
August 01, 2023
A former attorney and certified public accountant who is appealing his sentence of more than three years in federal prison for failing to remit employment taxes for one of his real estate companies was disbarred for professional misconduct by Michigan's attorney discipline board.
June 15, 2023
A panel of the Sixth Circuit gave a chilly reception Thursday to a Michigan real estate developer and his lawyer's request to shorten his 38-month prison sentence for tax evasion, with the judges suggesting it would be futile to order a resentencing.
October 12, 2022
A federal court sentenced a Michigan lawyer to more than three years in prison and ordered him to pay $1.2 million in restitution for trying to evade employment taxes on his property and snow-removal businesses for nearly a decade.