TJS:
Amen. Now let's look at further quotes from the Indiana Indictment against Joseph and Jayne Lanza....
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(Tax Evasion)
Count 16
1. In the Calendar year, 1989, the defendants, JOSEPH LANZA and JAYNE LANZA, who were husband and wife, had and received a substantial taxable income which well in excess of $400,000.
2. The income of JOSEPH LANZA and JAYNE LANZA came in four forms: the diversion of money from various corporations to pay for personal items; the net transfer of money from business bank accounts to personal bank accounts; income deposited directly to personal bank accounts; and income derived from the use of corporate credit cards for personal items.
3. Well knowing and believing that the foregoing facts were true, the defendants,
JOSEPH LANZA
and
JAYNE LANZA,
on or about April 16, 1990, in the Northern District of Indiana and elsewhere, did willfully attempt to evade and defeat a substantial amount of the income tax due and owing by each of them to the United States of America for the Calendar year 1989 by failing to file a joint individual income tax return or individual income tax returns on or before April 16, 1990, as required by law, to an proper officer of the Internal Revenue Service and because of which there remains income tax due and owing to the United States.
4. In concealing and attempting to conceal from all proper officers of the United States of America their true and correct income, JOSEPH LANZA and JAYNE LANZA committed, among others, the following affirmative acts of evasion:
a. JOSEPH LANZA and JAYNE LANZA diverted a large sum of money from various corporate entities to pay for personal items.
b. JOSEPH LANZA and JAYNE LANZA diverted a large sum of money from various corporate entities by using corporate credit cards to purchase personal items and then having the corporations pay the credit card bill.
c. JOSEPH LANZA lied to a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation regarding the amount of money he and wife personally had invested in the various corporate entities.
d. JOSEPH LANZA lied to a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation by saying t hat none of this personal expenses were paid by any business or corporate entity.
e. JOSEPH LANZA lied to a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation by saying that money that was used to start a certain corporation the funds of which were later diverted to their personal benefit was actually a loan to he and his wife.
f. JOSEPH LANZA lied to his accountants as to the various amount of money JAYNE LANZA and he had contributed to the various corporate entities. He repeatedly advised his accountants to list unknown deposits as capital contributions, and continually mislead them by telling them that he putting more into the business than he was taking out.
g. JOSEPH LANZA failed to disclose to several accountants the amount of money that was being diverted from the various corporations for the benefit of he and his wife.
h. JOSEPH LANZA and JAYNE LANZA purposely ignored advise from several accountants that they should separate personal and business expenses.
I. JOSEPH LANZA and JAYNE LANZA maintained 27 business bank accounts in various corporate names and 8 personal bank accounts in their own names and frequently transferred funds among those various accounts without making and keeping appropriate accounting of the transactions, despite having been advised to keep such documentation by several accountants.
All in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7201.
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Well everyone, if you got this far, does it all ring a bell and sound familiar?
Wes |
