Final Notice
Final Notice s a weekly podcast where tax attorney Jason Carr breaks down real tax fraud prosecutions and reveals what should have been done to avoid them. New episodes every Friday at carrtaxlaw.com.
Episodes
10 episodes
The $35,000 Lie
John Kungu owned a successful business, Advanced Nursing Care, in Townsend, Delaware. He also owed the IRS nearly $1.2 million, and he decided to lie his way out of it. In this episode of Final Notice, tax attorney Jason Ca...
Credit Where Credit Isn't Due
Congress created the Employee Retention Credit to help struggling businesses keep workers on payroll during the pandemic. Candies Goode-McCoy of Las Vegas treated it like an ATM. From approximately June 2022 through September 2023, ...
The One-Dollar Doctor
Dr. Pankaj Merchia controlled several sleep medicine companies and, on paper, looked like a Harvard-educated success story. Federal prosecutors said he was running a shell game. From 2017 to 2019, Merchia billed insurers millions fo...
Trust Fund, Broken Trust
Harry Lamar Curtis III owned Information Advisory Group LLC, a cybersecurity and IT company based in Houston. He was also a former certified public accountant. According to the Department of Justice, Curtis was required to withhold ...
Beyond a Reasonable Blockchain
David Gebhardt was a Tennessee-licensed attorney from Brentwood. According to DOJ, he bought cryptocurrency, used decentralized exchanges and nominees to conceal income, and failed to report millions of dollars in income from cryptocurrency sal...
Schedule C for Make-Believe
Kerwin Aldric Jordan was a California tax preparer who operated The Jordan Corporation and Jordan and Jordan A Financial Conquest. Prosecutors said he held himself out as a tax attorney and certified public accountant, even though he was neithe...
Shell Game in Steel-Toe Boots
Rene Mauricio Escobar and Juana Nelida Escobar operated Escobar Plastering in Orlando, Florida. Federal prosecutors said they used the company to help construction subcontractors pay workers off the books, avoid payroll taxes, and avoid workers...
The Golf Course Gambit
Michael Kirouac owned or controlled four companies: HK Manchester, HK Loudon, HK Hudson, and HK Pelham. Prosecutors said he applied for and obtained more than $1 million in Economic Injury Disaster Loans, certifying that the money would be used...