A Chicago-area man has been nailed for a year in federal prison for cooking the books on his tax returns.
Nikko D’Ambrosio, 32, of Des Plaines, Ill., was sentenced to a year-and-a-day in federal prison for making false statements in his personal income tax returns for the tax years 2019 and 2020, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
D’Ambrosio, a salesperson for an Illinois-based electronic sweepstakes kiosk operator, falsified his income tax returns by claiming to have driven more than 474,000 miles on business-related travel for those two years and incurred over $263,000 in business-related meal expenses.
He also falsely claimed to have donated more than $63,000 to a Catholic church in Chicago, but church officials testified that D’Ambrosio was not a parishioner and there was no record of any donations from him.
A federal jury convicted D’Ambrosio of making false statements in his tax returns earlier this year.
The sentence was imposed by U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Durkin during a hearing in federal court in Chicago. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Richard M. Rothblatt and Brandon D. Stone.
The sentence was announced by Morris Pasqual, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Jason Bushey, Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in Chicago, and Robert W. “Wes” Wheeler, Jr., Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Field Office of the FBI.
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Key Facts
- State: Illinois
- Agency: DOJ USAO
- Category: White Collar Crime
- Source: Official Source ↗
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