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“As alleged, Seth Andrew abused his position as a founder of a charter school network to steal from the very same schools he helped create,” Strauss said. “Andrew is not only alleged to have stolen the schools’ money but also to have used the stolen funds to obtain savings on a mortgage for a multimillion-dollar Manhattan apartment.”
Timothy C. Doherty Jr., an attorney with Downs Rachlin Martin in Burlington, told
The Commons that Andrew entered a plea of not guilty Tuesday. Identifying himself as a colleague, Doherty responded to an inquiry from
The Commons to Andrew’s attorney, Michael Lloyd Yaeger of Carlton Fields P.A., a New York City–based law firm.
Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jonathan D. Larsen, Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation ( IRS-CI ), William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ), Amaleka McCall-Brathwaite, Eastern Region Special Agent-in-Charge of the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Small Business Administration ( SBA ), and Stephen Donnelly, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Office of the Inspector General of the Board of Governors for the Federal Reserve announced that Apocalypse Bella, aka Dias Yumba, Mackenzy Toussaint, aka Mack, and Amos Mundendi, aka Mos, aka El Ashile Mundi, were charged with participating in a fraudulent scheme to obtain over $14 million in Government-guaranteed loans designed to provide relief to small businesses during the novel coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic.
Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Jonathan D. Larsen, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation ( IRS-CI ), announced that Christopher Wright, a citizen of the United Kingdom, was extradited today from Spain. Wright is charged with wire fraud and money laundering relating to his role in a telemarketing scheme involving the fraudulent sale of purported carbon credits to victims in the United Kingdom. Wright was arrested in Spain on January 27, 2021 and is the second defendant charged in the case. Wright is expected to be presented on Friday, April 23, 2021, before U.S. Magistrate Judge James L. Cott. Wright s case is assigned to U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman.
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A Jersey Shore man was sent to federal prison for 19 months for dodging nearly $1 million in taxes at his Manhattan construction company.
Bilal Salaj, 55, of the Morganville section of Marlboro, will have to serve out nearly the entire term because there’s no parole in the federal prison system.
Salaj admitted in U.S. District Court in Manhattan last October that he avoided the payroll and personal income taxes for five years, in part, by putting the company in an associate’s name and paying workers under the table.
The cash came from $3.2 million in business checks that should’ve gone into the company account but instead were converted by the associate at check-cashing businesses in Manhattan, said Audrey Strauss, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Audrey Strauss, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that Bilal Salaj was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 19 months in prison for perpetrating tax fraud. SALAJ previously pled guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang to conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service ( IRS ), tax evasion, and failure to pay over payroll taxes. U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel, who accepted Salaj s guilty plea, imposed today s sentence.
U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said: Bilal Salaj failed to pay his tax obligations to the IRS and maintained a cash payroll for his business while cheating the government out of almost $1 million. Our self-assessment system of tax reporting is not synonymous with forthrightness optional. The government and especially our law enforcement partners won t miss, overlook, or ignore those who misreport on their tax returns. In the competitive small business world, being dishonest and underreporting tax oblig