Charles Randall Sorensen, Tax Evasion, Minnesota 2017

MINNEAPOLIS – Feds Nab Tax Cheat

A federal jury found Charles Randall Sorensen, 72, of Minnetonka, guilty of tax evasion, filing false tax returns, failing to file tax returns, and making false claims, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.

The evidence presented at trial revealed that Sorensen, a former commercial airline pilot, retired in 2016. In January 2017, Sorensen filed a fraudulent tax return for the 2015 tax year, falsely claiming he was entitled to a $55,365 tax refund. In reality, Sorensen owed more than $49,000 in income taxes that year.

In March 2017, Sorensen filed a fraudulent tax return for the 2016 tax year, falsely claiming he was entitled to a $123,370 tax refund. In reality, he owed more than $175,000 in taxes that year. The IRS conducted an audit of Sorensen’s 2015 and 2016 tax returns and found that Sorensen fraudulently received more than $150,000 in tax refunds to which he was not entitled and owed more than $290,000 in taxes, interest, and penalties for those tax years.

Prosecutors alleged that Sorensen refused to pay his tax debt and took steps to actively evade the IRS’s collection efforts by hiding his income and assets in bank accounts in the name of shell religious non-profits and by liquidating his retirement accounts and converting the funds into cryptocurrency. Sorensen also failed to file federal income tax returns for 2017, 2018, and 2019. Sorensen owes the United States more than $300,000.

Following a four-day trial before Chief Judge Patrick J. Schiltz in U.S. District Court, Sorensen was found guilty today on two counts of filing a false tax return, one count of tax evasion, three counts of failing to file a tax return, and one count of making a false claim.

The case is the result of an investigation conducted by IRS – Criminal Investigations. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Michael P. McBride and Campbell Warner tried the case.

Sorensen’s sentencing hearing will be scheduled at a later date. He faces significant jail time and fines for his tax crimes.

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