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Chiropractor Sentenced for Bribing IRS Auditor
BOSTON – In a shocking case of corruption, Stephen Jacobs, a 56-year-old chiropractor from Lowell, Massachusetts, was sentenced to nine months in prison for bribing an IRS agent.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Jacobs pleaded guilty to bribery of a public official in October 2014, before U.S. District Court Judge William G. Young. Jacobs must report to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons by February 24, 2015.
The case began in August 2013, when an IRS auditor met with Jacobs to examine issues with his federal income tax forms for 2011. During the initial interview, the auditor advised Jacobs that two $5,000 payments were not allowable deductions after Jacobs admitted that each was a payment to two different women after they accused him of touching them inappropriately during medical treatments.
Jacobs told the auditor that he paid the women because he was concerned that they would report him to the police or to the chiropractic board. He also admitted to other inappropriate contact when he was giving the second woman a massage.
In a desperate attempt to avoid further consequences, Jacobs offered to bribe the auditor in exchange for terminating the examination, saying, “. . . you want a bribe? You want me to pay you?…”. The auditor, acting under the direction of law enforcement, then accepted Jacobs’s offer of $5,000 to give Jacobs a favorable audit letter showing no additional tax for one year and a small refund for the next year.
Jacobs paid the auditor $5,000 in cash for the favorable treatment.
United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz and Robert O’Malley, Special Agent in Charge of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, made the announcement today. The case was prosecuted by Eugenia M. Carris of Ortiz’s Public Corruption Unit.
Jacobs was sentenced to nine months in prison, two years of supervised release, and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine.
Key Facts
- State: Massachusetts
- Category: Public Corruption
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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