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Local Woman Admits to Conspiring to Defraud the IRS
A Mays Landing woman admitted to conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service by filing false employment tax returns that concealed a company’s cash payroll, it was announced today.
D Denise Davis, 52, of Mays Landing, New Jersey, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Karen M. Williams in Camden federal court to an information charging her with one count of conspiring to defraud the IRS.
According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court, Davis worked at Davis Brothers Chimney Sweep & Masonry, a business located in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, owned by Davis’s spouse.
Davis admitted that between January 1, 2018 and April 30, 2024, she conspired with Henry Collins, the business’s bookkeeper, to defraud the IRS. As part of the conspiracy, Collins utilized a commercial check casher to negotiate a substantial amount of Davis Brothers’s gross receipts checks.
Collins used some of the resulting cash to pay himself and other Davis Brothers employees in cash. Collins provided the rest of the cash to Davis and her spouse. Davis and Collins then provided false and misleading information to the business’s outside accounting firm that resulted in the preparation and filing of false payroll tax returns that omitted the employees paid in cash and their cash wages.
Davis also admitted that she failed to file individual income tax returns for herself and her spouse during the same time period. Davis admitted that the conspiracy resulted in a tax loss of approximately $1.18 million.
The count of conspiracy carries a maximum penalty of 5 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. Sentencing is scheduled for February 4, 2026.
Collins previously pleaded guilty for his role in the conspiracy and is scheduled to be sentenced in December 2025.
The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Bender of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Camden.
Defense counsel for Davis is Michele Finizio, Esq., of Moorestown, New Jersey.
Key Facts
- State: New Jersey
- Category: Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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