PORTLAND, Maine – In a shocking case of financial deceit, Janis F. Woods, a 65-year-old bookkeeper from Conway, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty to interstate transportation of stolen property and tax evasion.
According to court documents, between 2009 and 2012, Woods issued herself 169 unauthorized checks totaling over $742,000 while working as bookkeeper for Grover Gundrilling, Inc., of Norway, Maine. She deposited the stolen funds into a bank account in New Hampshire.
Between 2007 and 2009, she used her position as bookkeeper for VM Foods of Conway, New Hampshire to issue herself $220,000 in unauthorized checks. By failing to report the stolen funds on her federal income tax returns, she evaded almost $284,000 in taxes.
Woods faces up to ten years in prison and twice the gain or loss as a fine for the interstate transportation charge and up to five years in prison and twice the gain or loss on the tax evasion charge.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service.
Janis F. Woods, the defendant, will be sentenced after completion of a presentence investigation report by the U.S. Probation Office.
Contact U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II for more information.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank is handling the case.
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- Robert Thompson, Tax Evasion and Illicit Lobster Sales, Maine 2008 · New Hampshire
- Ronald W. Martin, Tax Evasion, New Hampshire 2008 · New Hampshire
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Key Facts
- State: Maine
- Category: White Collar Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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