Mikhail Goldman, Tax Evasion, New Jersey 2014

A Bergen County man is headed to the slammer after trying to cheat the system out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes.

Mikhail Goldman, 63, of Fort Lee, New Jersey, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for tax evasion, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

According to documents filed in the case, Goldman received $12 million in checks written to various companies controlled by him, which he cashed for a fee of 5 percent of the face amount of each check. Goldman then failed to disclose those retained fees of $600,000 on his income tax returns to avoid paying the taxes he owed.

Goldman pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael A. Hammer to a one-count information charging him with tax evasion for failing to report a total of $600,000 in income that he received between 2007 and 2011.

Goldman was sentenced to 18 months in prison by United States District Judge Faith S. Hochberg. In addition to the prison term, Judge Hochberg also sentenced Goldman to three years of supervised release and ordered Goldman to pay over $120,000 in restitution to the United States.

Goldman’s defense counsel is George Farkas Esq., of Brooklyn, New York. The government is represented by Senior Litigation Counsel Andrew Leven of the U.S. Attorney’s Office Health Care and Government Fraud Unit in Newark.

U.S. Attorney Fishman credited special agents of IRS-Criminal Investigation, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Shantelle P. Kitchen, for the investigation leading to today’s sentence.

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