Deborah Meadows, Employment Tax Crimes, Nevada 2026

A former business owner in Las Vegas has been caught and charged with a serious crime. Deborah Meadows, 64, pleaded guilty to willfully failing to pay over employment taxes from her employees' wages.

According to court documents and statements made in court, Meadows controlled all financial matters related to A to Z Employment Services LLC, a cleaning company she owned and operated in Nevada. She was responsible for withholding Social Security, Medicare and income taxes from her employees' wages and paying those funds over to the IRS, as well as filing quarterly employment tax returns with the IRS.

However, Meadows failed to pay over the taxes to the IRS from the first quarter of 2010 through the fourth quarter of 2020, causing a tax loss to the U.S. government exceeding $1.2 million. She also failed to file individual tax returns from 2018 through 2021.

After the IRS began investigating Meadows, she took steps to obstruct the grand jury investigation. She provided investigators with altered bank records and inaccurate tax records, in an attempt to cover up her crime.

Meadows pleaded guilty to one count of willful failure to account for and pay over trust fund taxes. She faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

Meadows is scheduled to be sentenced on May 21, 2026. The investigation was conducted by IRS Criminal Investigation.

Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Criminal Division and First Assistant U.S. Attorney Sigal Chattah for the District of Nevada made the announcement.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/cleaning-service-owner-pleads-guilty-employment-tax-crimes