St. Joseph, MO – Thad Weaver, 46, of St. Joseph, pleaded guilty in federal court today on a charge related to a nearly $1.5 million tax fraud scheme. Weaver was the husband of Dinorah Lynn Stoll-Weaver, a former St. Joseph business owner who owned and operated Homeward Bound Health Services, Inc., a home health provider located in St. Joseph.
Weaver pleaded guilty to making false statements on a tax return. His wife, Dinorah Lynn Stoll-Weaver, 49, pleaded guilty on July 28, 2017, to failing to pay over employee payroll taxes to the IRS for her home health provider business. The total criminal tax loss attributed to Homeward Bound and Silver Linings for failure to pay employment taxes due and owing from 2001 to 2012 is $1,459,727.
Homeward Bound and Silver Linings withheld and collected federal income taxes, Social Security taxes, and Medicare taxes from employees and then kept those withheld taxes instead of paying them over to the IRS. The theft of these payments had negative collateral consequences for their employees. Weaver, Stoll-Weaver, and two co-defendants, Dawn Langlais and Jennifer Sturgis, admitted they received income from Homeward Bound and Silver Linings, which they failed to report on their individual federal income tax forms.
Weaver and Stoll-Weaver were married and filed individual income tax returns for 2010 – 2012; Stoll-Weaver filed a separate return in 2009. Their combined unreported income was at least $257,827. Weaver’s total personal tax loss was at least $27,488. Stoll-Weaver’s personal tax loss was $34,264.
Langlais willfully failed to make an income tax return or pay personal income taxes from 2010 to 2012, for a total personal tax loss of $56,860. Sturgis willfully failed to make an income tax return or pay personal income taxes from 2007 to 2012, for a total personal tax loss of $148,347, including relevant conduct.
Under federal statutes, Weaver is subject to a sentence of up to three years in federal prison without parole. Sturgis is also subject to a sentence of up to three years in federal prison without parole. Stoll-Weaver and Langlais are each subject to a sentence of up to five years in federal prison without parole. Sentencing hearings will be scheduled after the completion of presentence investigations by the United States Probation Office.
This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel M. Wallmeyer, Western District of Missouri. The case was investigated by the IRS-Criminal Investigation.
Key Facts
- State: Missouri
- Category: White Collar Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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