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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0SANTA ANA, California<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"The owner of a Newport Beach-based artificial turf company was sentenced last week to 15 months in federal prison for failing to report nearly $9 million in income his business earned, officials stated<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 According to officials, Craig Steven Voyton also attempted to evade the payment of more than $946,000 in federal income taxes.<\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge John W. Holcomb also ordered\u00a0 Voyton, 56, of San Pedro, to pay a fine of $50,000.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Voyton pleaded guilty on July 7 to one count of tax evasion.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Voyton] was a business owner who operated a business in Orange and Los Angeles counties,\u201d prosecutors argued in a sentencing memorandum. \u201cHe generated more than a million dollars in business income each year. He reported not one dime of that to the IRS.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \"\"\u00a0 Voyton owns and operates Smart Grass LLC, which installs artificial turf for residential and commercial customers in Orange and Los Angeles counties.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From 2016 to 2020, Smart Grass generated more than $1.5 million in gross income per year from its business operations, and \u2013 not wanting to pay taxes on that income \u2013 Voyton attempted to conceal that income from the IRS.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To do so, Voyton emailed customers federal tax forms listing false identification information, so, if and when the customers reported to the IRS the payments they had made to him and his company, those payments would not be linked directly to Voyton or Smart Grass for tax purposes.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On three occasions in 2020, Voyton emailed to customers in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills an IRS Form W-9 with false information and a signature in a fictitious identity.<\/p>\n

Voyton sent similar fraudulent IRS Forms W-9 during the tax years 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. Voyton also provided a false IRS Form W-9 to a school in Irvine in August 2016.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 While attempting to evade the payment of taxes during this time, Voyton made more than $63,000 in transfers to the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange from a Smart Grass bank account.<\/p>\n

Voyton also used more than $500,000 in company funds to make real estate purchases in Nevada and Mexico.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Voyton failed to report approximately $8,926,333 in income, which prevented the IRS from assessing the total sum of about $946,479 in federal income taxes for the tax years 2016 through 2020.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Prior to last week’s sentencing hearing, Voyton paid the IRS all the back taxes he owes, plus interest, as well as paying an additional 75% fraud penalty.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 IRS Criminal Investigation investigated this matter.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles E. Pell of the Santa Ana Branch Office prosecuted this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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