Kevin Scott Wynn, Tax Evasion, Arizona 2019

Kevin Scott Wynn, Tax Evasion, Arizona 2019

PHOENIX, Ariz. – Kevin Scott Wynn, a 59-year-old Scottsdale resident, was sentenced to 46 months in prison and fined $7,500 for tax evasion and failure to file tax returns.

The sentence included an upward adjustment for obstruction of justice: Wynn withdrew $1,500,000 in cash from his business bank account in thirteen separate transactions in the first several months of 2020, and subsequently cut his ankle monitor and fled Arizona before a scheduled sentencing hearing.

He was apprehended by Mexican law enforcement authorities in Mexico City in August and deported back to the United States.

Upon release from prison, Wynn will be placed on supervised release for three years. As a condition of supervision, he will be required to pay more than $700,000 in back taxes as restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.

The Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation conducted the underlying investigation, and the United States Marshals Service led the fugitive apprehension efforts.

Assistant United States Attorneys Gary M. Restaino and James R. Knapp handled the prosecution.

The case number is CR-18-1649-PHX-SMB, and the release number is 2021-020_Wynn.

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Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-az/pr/tax-fugitive-sentenced-and-fined