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Phoenix Asphalt Paver Sentenced to Prison for Tax Evasion
A Phoenix asphalt paver has been sentenced to 77 months in prison and ordered to pay $1.5 million in restitution for tax evasion, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service announced on January 7, 2010.
John D. Stacey of Mesa, Arizona, was convicted of income tax evasion, corrupt interference with the due administration of the IRS, and multiple counts of fraudulent use of a social security number following a jury trial in June 2009.
According to the evidence presented at trial, Stacey operated a sole proprietorship asphalt paving company that did business under various names, including A to Z Paving, Triple A Paving, Texas Paving, Pave Your Way Construction, and A to Z Paving Engineering, among others.
Stacey earned gross income in excess of $4 million from his business during the years 2000 to 2003, but he has never filed an individual income tax return with the IRS.
Stacey knew he owed taxes, penalties, and interest for tax years 1995, 1996, and 1997, but he made no payments to the IRS towards this tax debt. He also took numerous steps to frustrate the IRS’s efforts to both investigate the case and collect tax that he owed, including making multiple false statements to IRS agents, operating his business to prevent creating business records, making a number of luxury purchases rather than paying his outstanding tax debt, and providing paving customers and financial institutions with multiple false social security numbers to prevent the IRS from receiving accurate information about his income, assets, and financial transactions.
John A. DiCicco, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, commended the IRS Criminal Investigation Division agents who investigated the case, as well as Tax Division trial attorneys Monica Edelstein and Ellen Quattrucci who prosecuted the case.
Stacey earned gross income in excess of $4 million from his business during the years 2000 to 2003, but he has never filed an individual income tax return with the IRS. He was sentenced to 77 months in prison and ordered to pay $1.5 million in restitution.
The exact criminal charges against Stacey include income tax evasion, corrupt interference with the due administration of the IRS, and multiple counts of fraudulent use of a social security number.
The sentencing date was January 7, 2010.
Stacey’s location is Mesa, Arizona.
Key Facts
- State: Federal
- Category: White Collar Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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