Shady business deals have led to a harsh sentence for two Metairie entrepreneurs. Rommel Cordova, 36, of Luling, and Saul Ramirez, 44, of Kenner, were both handed down five years of probation and a $10,000 fine after being caught with their hands in the cookie jar of tax fraud.
According to U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite, Cordova and Ramirez, co-owners of Skill Labor Provider, Inc., engaged in a scheme that saw them wilfully file fraudulent 2011 individual income tax returns. The duo’s cunning plan involved siphoning off funds from their business through a Louisiana check cashing business without reporting them, leading to a massive underreporting of gross receipts exceeding $6 million.
But this wasn’t just a one-off; the deception was systemic. Cordova and Ramirez were also responsible for filing fraudulent corporate income tax returns for 2010, 2011, and 2012, which similarly underrepresented the true earnings of Skill Labor. On an individual level, they separately filed fraudulent tax returns that misrepresented their net income from the business by more than $866,000 each.
Not content with skimming funds off the top, Cordova and Ramirez failed to deposit these funds into Skill Labor’s official bank accounts or declare them as gross receipts. Their brazenness came to a head when they were both ordered to pay restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for their deceitful antics.
Despite the pair’s attempts to evade justice, the IRS-Criminal Investigation and Homeland Security Investigations agents did not miss a beat in their investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Hayden Brockett and Tax Division Trial Attorney Michael Hatzimichalis were at the helm of the prosecution, ensuring that Cordova and Ramirez would be held accountable for their white-collar crime.
U.S. Attorney Polite commended the agents’ dedication to nailing down these tax evaders, reflecting a relentless pursuit of justice in the face of financial dishonesty.
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Key Facts
- State: Louisiana
- Agency: DOJ USAO
- Category: Fraud & Financial Crimes|Public Corruption
- Source: Official Source ↗
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