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Paulette Bryant, a 68-year-old business owner from Stockbridge, Georgia, has been sentenced to three years in prison for obstructing the collection of nearly $3 million in employment taxes.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, Bryant owned and operated a temporary employment staffing business with several locations in North Georgia. Between 1998 and 2009, Bryant’s business failed to make the required quarterly filings and to pay the IRS the payroll taxes owed by her employees and business.
The IRS audited Bryant’s business in 2001 and assessed a personal penalty of $1 million in unpaid payroll taxes going back to 1998. Even after this audit and penalty, which went unpaid, Bryant and her businesses continued to fail to file with the IRS and to pay payroll taxes.
By 2009, the unpaid payroll taxes and penalty totaled $2,914,931.12. Bryant used the funds that should have been paid to the IRS to operate her company and fund her personal lifestyle. She formed and used new, overlapping corporate identities that had various names and that used various pseudonyms as corporate officers.
The effect of this was to delay and hinder the IRS’s efforts to collect the employment taxes that her business owed. The business identities used by Bryant included Selective Employment Services, Inc. (formed in 2001), Corporate Staffing, Inc. (formed in 2002), Corporate Solutions Group, Inc. (formed in 2004), and Optimum Staffing Solutions Corporation (formed in 2009).
Bryant has been sentenced to three years in prison to be followed by 1 year of supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $2,914,931.12. Bryant was convicted of obstructing and impeding the IRS’s collection of payroll taxes on October 9, 2013, after she pleaded guilty to an Information.
This case was investigated by the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation. Assistant United States Attorney Douglas W. Gilfillan prosecuted the case.
For further information, please contact the U.S. Attorney’s Public Affairs Office at USAGAN.PressEmails@usdoj.gov or (404) 581-6016. The Internet address for the home page for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia Atlanta Division is http://www.justice.gov/usao/gan/.
Key Facts
- State: Georgia
- Category: White Collar Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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