Marcel Roy Benshadle, Joe Saladino, and Cajun Mike Mungovan convicted of conspiracy to defraud in IRS case.

[Bob Hurt]

Marcel told me he thought the jury would go his way.   They didn’t.   I believe the DOJ suborned them.

 

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Federal jury finds three guilty of $9 million tax evasion scheme By Bryan Denson, The Oregonian http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2009/11/federal_jury_finds_three_guilt.html November 23, 2009, 12:25PM A Portland jury this morning found three men guilty of defrauding the U.S. government of more than $9 million as part of a tax-resistance scheme they sold to hundreds of Americans in more than 40 states. Joseph O. Saladino, 62, Marcel R. Bendshadler, 48, and Michael S. Mungovan, 66, were convicted of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. by interfering with the IRS's ability to accurately assess and calculate income taxes. A fourth defendant, Richard Ortt, was acquitted. A fifth man involved in the scheme, 62-year-old Richard A. Fuselier, pleaded guilty to the crime in September. The guilty men offered a tax evasion service from 2001 to 2005 in which they prepared more than 1,000 tax returns based on the theory that compensation for personal labor is not taxable, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Allan Garten. "So let's assume for a moment that you would get a W2 that said $40,000," Garten said. "(The guilty men) would list as income $40,000, and then they would deduct the value of your labor of $40,000 ... so that you paid no taxes." That's illegal, he said. "The argument that compensation for personal labor is not taxable income is both frivolous and has been rejected consistently by the courts and the IRS," Garten said. As a matter of policy, he said, the Internal Revenue Service seeks to recoup taxes not properly paid to the government through such schemes. The four guilty men are scheduled for sentencing early next year before U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown. They face maximum sentences of five years in prison and fines of $250,000. -- Bryan Denson