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John Paul Cook, 57, of Buncombe County, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge W. Carleton Metcalf to enter the guilty plea to fraudulently claiming the service-connected disabilities. According to a criminal indictment, filed plea documents and admissions made in court, Cook enlisted in the Army in November 1985 and six months later sustained an accidental injury while on duty. Following the incident, Cook complained that injuries he sustained worsened a preexisting eye condition. In 1987, following a medical evaluation, Cook was discharged, placed on the retired list and began receiving VA disability-based compensation at a rate of 60 percent. Over the next 30 years, Cook’s disability-based compensation increased as Cook continued to falsely claim that he had visual impairment and an inability to work due to “severe visual deficit.” As Cook admitted in court, in 2005, based on his claims of severe visual impairment, the VA declared Cook legally blind and he began re ....
Sylva man arrested in connection with Capitol riots On Jan. 21, workers begin to remove displays and equipment used on an Inauguration Day that was heavily influenced by the events of Jan. 6. Jeffery Delannoy photo The world watched with bated breath Jan. 6 as what is normally a perfunctory proceeding the Senatorial certification of Electoral College results turned violent. At the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., then-President Donald Trump was whipping attendees into a frenzy of anger over what he continues to claim was a stolen election, and as he spoke the roiling crowd made its raucous way to the U.S. Capitol a couple miles away. ....
Atlanta Tax Professionals Plead Guilty to Promoting Syndicated Conservation Easement Tax Scheme Details Written by Justice Department Washington, DC - Stein Agee of Canton, Georgia, and Corey Agee of Atlanta, Georgia, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge W. Carleton Metcalf and pleaded guilty for their roles in a wide-ranging abusive tax scheme to defraud the IRS, the Department of Justice announced Monday. According to court documents, from at least 2013 through 2019, S. Agee and C. Agee, then partners at an Atlanta accounting firm, marketed, promoted, and sold together with co-conspirators, investments in fraudulent syndicated conservation easement (SCE) tax shelters. The SCE tax shelters were designed to produce tax deductions for high-income taxpayers through partnerships that purported to make “real estate investments.” In truth, the partnerships were a sham, lacking economic substance and serving no legitimate business purpos ....