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Defendant Sentenced to 18 Months for Tax Evasion
Jon C. Cooper, 64, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced to 18 months in prison for one count of tax evasion related to his failure to report over $448,000 in income that he received in 2006.
The sentencing took place in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where Cooper pleaded guilty to the charge in October 2013. As part of his guilty plea, Cooper admitted that he and a second defendant, Alan Messner, induced an Indonesian airline company to pay them a $1 million security deposit to lease two aircraft using various false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, and promises – including forged and fraudulent documents.
Cooper spent the balance of the security deposit for his own personal benefit and admitted that he did not report at least $448,727 of those proceeds on his federal income tax return for 2006. By under-reporting his income, Cooper claimed a tax refund that year, causing a tax loss of at least $140,109 to the United States.
As part of his guilty plea, Cooper agreed to pay $140,109 owed to the United States and to make restitution of $1 million to the victimized Indonesian airline company. Upon completion of his prison term, Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered that Cooper be placed on three years of supervised release.
In a related case, Messner, 41, of Rolling Meadows, Ill., pled guilty to one count of tax evasion, admitting that he failed to report any portion of the $284,500 that he received on his federal income tax returns. Messner was sentenced to a year and a day in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay $62,231 in restitution to the United States.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office, the FBI’s Washington Field Office, the IRS-CI, and the Department of Justice’s Tax Division all expressed appreciation for the work done by those who investigated the case.
Key Facts
- State: Washington DC
- Category: Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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