Tri Anh Tieu, Tax Conspiracy, New Jersey 2025

Camden Man, 53, Pleads Guilty to Tax Conspiracy

CAMDEN, N.J. – Tri Anh Tieu, a 53-year-old man from Camden, New Jersey, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the IRS by concealing cash wages paid to his business’s employees, Acting U.S. Attorney Vikas Khanna announced.

Tieu, the owner of Tri States Staffing LLC, a business based in Pennsauken, New Jersey, was responsible for collecting and paying over to the IRS the payroll taxes due and owing on the wages paid to the temporary workers provided by Tri States Staffing.

According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court, Tieu paid Tri States’s employees in cash and failed to pay over the payroll taxes due and owing on those wages. He spent at least some of the unpaid taxes on personal expenditures, including gambling.

The conspiracy caused a tax loss of approximately $305,332, which Tieu admitted to in court. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

Sentencing is scheduled for June 26, 2025. Acting U.S. Attorney Khanna credited special agents of IRS-Criminal Investigation, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Yury Kruty in Philadelphia and Special Agent in Charge Jenifer L. Piovesan in Newark, with the investigation leading to today’s plea.

The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Bender of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Camden.

Mandatory Facts: Tri Anh Tieu, Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, Camden, New Jersey, June 26, 2025, 5 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, $305,332 in tax loss.

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