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Indicted * USA - IRS after California trucking firm for taxes, attempted bribery
CAL,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Charlie Morasch -October 10, 2008: -- A federal grand jury recently indicted three brothers who ran a California trucking business for allegedly withholding $2.5 million in taxes, in addition to previous charges of trying to bribe an Internal Revenue Service officer... In October 2007, the Lasher brothers of Los Banos, CA-based Lasher Brothers Trucking Co. were charged with scheming to bribe an IRS revenue officer to avoid paying $2.5 million in taxes. It is being called the largest ever bribery case involving an IRS officer... The brothers allegedly offered to pay an undercover revenue officer $600,000 in cash to eliminate $2.5 million in delinquent employee withholding and FICA taxes and penalties. The brothers met the agent at a gas station and paid him $56,500 in cash, a quitclaim deed for Kulwant Lasher’s Los Banos residence, and a 2003 BMW 745L... On Oct. 2, U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott announced 19 new charges of tax violations against Kulwant Lasher, 51, Tarlochan Lasher, 53, and Jaswinder Lasher, 48... Conviction for bribery of a public official carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and a fine of up to $1.8 million. Each of the 19 tax charges carries a possible maximum penalty of five years and a fine of up to $250,000...
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