New Hartford Woman Sentenced for Tax Fraud and Structuring Offenses

New Hartford woman Andrea M. Dobrozenksy, 62, has been sentenced to five months in prison for filing false tax returns and structuring currency transactions. Read more

U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton handed down the sentence in New Haven on January 22, 2016. In addition to the prison time, Dobrozenksy was also ordered to serve five months of home confinement, one year of supervised release, and pay a $3,000 fine.

According to court documents and statements made in court, between 2007 and 2009, while working as an office manager for a medical practice in Hartford, Dobrozenksy made numerous transfers and deposits from the medical practice business bank account into her personal bank account as compensation for her services to the medical practice and untaken vacation time.

During those three years, Dobrozenksy willfully failed to provide her tax return preparer with information concerning her receipt of approximately $247,000 in additional taxable income. As a result, $247,000 in taxable income was not reported on Dobrozenksy’s federal tax returns for the 2007, 2008 and 2009 tax years, and she failed to pay a total of $76,750 in additional taxes owed.

Dobrozenksy also unlawfully structured financial transactions. On November 27, 2012, she was at a branch of Farmington Bank in Avon with a friend, David Raymond, who told her to write checks in amounts below $10,000. She then cashed the check payable to her and received $9,900 in cash.

As part of her sentence, Dobrozenksy was ordered to forfeit $9,900 related to her structuring activity. Prior to sentencing, Dobrozenksy paid the IRS $97,986 in back taxes and interest. Raymond, who pleaded guilty to one count of structuring financial transactions, awaits sentencing.

The case was investigated by the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Hartford Police Department. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys John H. Durham and Peter S. Jongbloed.

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