{"id":11365,"date":"2015-04-21T12:07:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T19:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=11365"},"modified":"2015-04-21T12:07:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T19:07:05","slug":"former-prison-doctor-turned-phony-minister-tried-to-cheat-irs-and-other-federal-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=11365","title":{"rendered":"Former Prison Doctor Turned Phony Minister Tried to Cheat IRS and Other Federal Agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/courtroom_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-8558\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/courtroom_02-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"courtroom_02\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>PHILADELPHIA\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014\u00a0A doctor who tried to cheat creditors including IRS and the Department of Health and Human services out of hundreds of thousands of dollars was sentenced to three years and five months in prison, federal officials announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dennis Erik Fluck Von Kiel<\/strong>, 58, of New Tripoli, Penn., is the former medical director of <strong>Lehigh County Prison.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In one scheme, Von Kiel pretended to be a minister who took the &#8220;vows of poverty,&#8221; and claimed his earnings belonged to his church, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the prison time, \u00a0<strong>U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey L. Schmehl<\/strong> ordered Von Kiel to pay restitution:\u00a0\u00a0IRS in the amount of $256,920; Department of Health and Human Services in the amount of $262,303.11;Department of Education in the amount of $36,314.<\/p>\n<p>He was also ordered to forfeit $165,988.29, and a pay $1,325 as a special assessment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>He was sentenced Monday after he plead guilty in January to the following crimes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Conspiracy to defraud the United States<\/li>\n<li>Five counts of attempting to defeat or evade a federal tax,<\/li>\n<li>One count of attempting to obstruct the due administration of the internal revenue code<\/li>\n<li>Five counts of failure to file tax returns<\/li>\n<li>One count of wire fraud and aiding and abetting wire fraud<\/li>\n<li>One count of perjury in a bankruptcy proceeding<\/li>\n<li>One count of financial aid fraud and aiding and abetting financial aid fraud<\/li>\n<li>Two counts of mail fraud and attempted mail fraud.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>According to the evidence in this case, this is what happened:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Since 2001, Von Kiel has engaged in a series of illegal schemes which were designed to help him evade creditors. This includes defrauding the Department of Health and Human Services to whom Von Kiel owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in outstanding medical school loans.<\/li>\n<li>He tried to defraud the IRS in order to avoid paying more than $200,000 in duly-owed personal income taxes.<\/li>\n<li>Von Kiel also lied on applications to the Department of Education for financial student aid for four of his children, which enabled them to receive more than $36,000 in federal Pell Grants for their college educations.<\/li>\n<li>Von Kiel tried to file a fraudulent claim for social security disability benefits by falsely claiming that he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.<\/li>\n<li>He also intentional made a false statement under oath in a bankruptcy proceeding.<\/li>\n<li>Von Kiel is a doctor of osteopathy whose medical practice included treating inmates at the county prison from approximately March 1989 until approximately August 2013.<\/li>\n<li>Most of Von Kiel\u2019s schemes involved him pretending to become a minister of a \u201cchurch\u201d called the International Academy of Lymphology (which later changed its name to the International Academy of Life and then the Christian Forum Assembly), purporting to take a \u201cvow of poverty.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>He then claiming that he had no taxable income because his earnings belonged to \u201cchurch.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Von Kiel convinced his employer that he was exempt from federal tax withholdings and directed his employer to deposit his bi-weekly paychecks into bank accounts for his \u201cchurch.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Once the money arrived in those accounts, co-conspirators would transfer nearly the same amount of money into Pennsylvania bank accounts controlled by Von Kiel. Von Kiel then used the money to pay for all of his family\u2019s day-to-day living expenses and to buy some luxury items.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Von Kiel has been at the Federal Detention Center without bail since his arrest on February 28, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA\u00a0\u2014\u00a0A doctor who tried to cheat creditors including IRS and the Department of Health and Human services out of hundreds of thousands of dollars was sentenced to three years and five months&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[1725,1316],"class_list":["post-11365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-main-slider","category-u-s-department-of-justice","tag-irs","tag-prison-doctor"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This 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