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Read / Add Comments 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 busi...

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...

Date: March 11, 2021 Audrey Strauss, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James C. Lee, Chief of the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation ("IRS-CI"), and Stuart M. Goldberg, Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice's Tax Division, announced the filing of a criminal Information against Rahn+Bodmer Co. ("R+B"), a financial institution located in Zurich, Switzerland. The Information charges R+B with one count of conspiring to help U.S. accountholders evade their U.S. tax obligations, file false federal tax returns, and otherwise d...

Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that Richard Schirripa pled guilty to making materially false statements to officers of the Drug Enforcement Administration ("DEA"). On two occasions in 2020, Schirripa falsely represented that, as part of the recent closure of his pharmacy in Manhattan, he had sold, transferred, or destroyed all controlled substances. In fact, he remained in possession of thousands of controlled substance pills/patches in his home, including fentanyl and oxycodone, which had been prescribed to others. Schirripa ...

+ Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and Jonathan D. Larsen, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI”), announced that ALHASSAN IDDRIS LARI, a/k/a Hassan Lari, pled guilty today to conspiring to commit money laundering and operating an unlawful money transmitting business, in connection with his involvement from at least in or about 2...