{"id":55293,"date":"2024-01-16T20:47:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T04:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=55293"},"modified":"2024-01-16T20:47:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T04:47:06","slug":"two-tax-shelter-promoters-sentenced-to-25-years-and-23-years-for-billion-dollar-tax-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=55293","title":{"rendered":"Two Tax Shelter Promoters Sentenced to 25 Years and 23 Years for Billion-Dollar Tax Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"node-subtitle\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"field-formatter--string field_subtitle\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong><em>Sold Over $1.3 Billion in Fraudulent Tax Deductions<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"node-body\">\n<div class=\"field-formatter--text-default field-text-format--wysiwyg text-formatted field_body\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1073 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2.jpg 299w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-120x76.jpg 120w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-265x168.jpg 265w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-284x180.jpg 284w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-274x173.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/>Two men were sentenced today for crimes arising from their organization, promotion, and sale of abusive syndicated conservation easement tax shelters, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Jack Fisher, a certified public accountant (CPA) who began selling units in his abusive tax shelters at least as early as 2008, was sentenced to 25 years in prison. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">James Sinnott, an attorney who joined Fisher\u2019s scheme in 2013 and oversaw the massive expansion of the tax shelters\u2019 fraudulent deduction amounts claimed from the IRS, was sentenced to 23 years in prison. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Also Tuesday, Victor Smith and William Tomasello, both Atlanta-area CPAs, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1057 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Justice-Depart-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Justice-Depart-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Justice-Depart-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Justice-Depart.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cUsing inflated appraisals, backdated documents and other sham actions, these conspirators generated more than $1.3 billion in fraudulent syndicated conservation easement tax deductions, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses to the U.S. Treasury,\u201d said Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department\u2019s Tax Division. \u201cThe significant sentences and convictions obtained are the direct result of the skill and tenacity of career prosecutors and agents, whose multiyear investigation pulled back the curtain on this massive criminal scheme.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><u>Jack Fisher and James Sinnott<\/u><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Fisher, Sinnott and their co-conspirators sold over $1.3 billion in fraudulent tax deductions, leading to a tax loss to the IRS of over $450 million. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Five other tax professionals involved in Fisher\u2019s scheme previously pleaded guilty. Fisher was not only a pioneer in the conservation easement industry but also one of its biggest promoters across the country. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51091 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/giorgio-trovato-wyxqqpyfnk8-unsplash-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"white and black printer paper\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Fisher and Sinnott each made millions of dollars promoting and selling their tax shelters to wealthy taxpayers. The two men also used fraudulent deductions generated by their tax shelters on their own personal income tax returns to reduce the taxes they owed on the millions earned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">A federal jury sitting in Atlanta convicted Fisher and Sinnott on Sept. 22, 2023, of conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, aiding and assisting the filing of false tax returns and subscribing to false tax returns arising out of their fraudulent tax shelter scheme involving syndicated conservation easements dating back nearly two decades. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Fisher was also separately found guilty of money laundering. One of the appraisers charged with Fisher and Sinnott pleaded guilty and was sentenced in November.\u00a0 Fisher\u2019s primary assistant, Kate Joy, who was also indicted, remains a fugitive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51585 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/billy-ujpmmc5z1pg-unsplash-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"tufted black chairs inside building with no people\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/billy-ujpmmc5z1pg-unsplash-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/billy-ujpmmc5z1pg-unsplash-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/billy-ujpmmc5z1pg-unsplash-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/billy-ujpmmc5z1pg-unsplash-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/billy-ujpmmc5z1pg-unsplash-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Fisher and Sinnott created, marketed, and sold unfair syndicated conservation easement tax shelters to wealthy clients based on falsely increased charitable contribution tax deductions, telling them they would get deductions worth 4.5 times the amount they paid for them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Fisher and Sinnott used the funds raised from their taxpayer clients to buy land through their property holding companies. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Then, they had the tax shelters cause those companies to donate the land or a conservation easement over the land\u2014often within days or weeks of the land\u2019s purchase. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">To reach the inflated fair market value of the donations, Fisher and Sinnott primarily used appraisals of the conservation easements and fee simple land donations at valuations, often more than ten times higher than the price Fisher and Sinnott actually paid to acquire the property.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The evidence further showed that Fisher and Sinnott backdated and instructed others to falsely backdate documents to be presented to the IRS, including subscription agreements, payment documents, engagement letters and other records. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49756 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/l4ygusg0fxs-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"woman in gold dress hlding sword figurine\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/l4ygusg0fxs-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/l4ygusg0fxs-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/l4ygusg0fxs-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/l4ygusg0fxs.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Fisher\u2019s accountant, a partner at the accounting firm Fisher started, testified at trial and previously pleaded guilty for his role in the scheme. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Along with Fisher and Sinnott, he oversaw the preparation of false tax returns, which claimed charitable contribution tax deductions based on false appraisals. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The evidence demonstrated that Fisher, Sinnott,, and others received more than $41 million in payments from the sale of units in these tax shelters that involved backdated documents or untimely payments, which were paid to claim fraudulent and inflated tax deductions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The government proved that Fisher and Sinnott personally made millions from their scheme. Fisher, specifically, used the illegal proceeds to purchase luxury items, including a Mercedes Benz car, a recreational vehicle and trailer, and a private jet. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37897 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Jail-Hallway.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/>Fisher also used the proceeds of the scheme to purchase homes and condos in the United States and on the Caribbean island of Bonaire, which the jury found to be forfeitable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The defendants sold over $1.3 billion in fraudulent tax deductions to wealthy taxpayers through this scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">In addition to the terms of imprisonment, U.S. District Chief Judge Timothy C. Batten for the Northern District of Georgia ordered both Fisher and Sinnott to serve three years of supervised release. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">He also ordered Fisher to pay approximately $457,855,755 in restitution to the United States and Sinnott to pay approximately $443,760,035 in restitution to the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><u>Victor Smith and William Tomasello<\/u><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">According to court documents and statements made in court, Smith served as a CPA and founding partner of an Atlanta-based accounting firm. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2782 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IRS-Criminal-Investigation.-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IRS-Criminal-Investigation.-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IRS-Criminal-Investigation.-120x76.jpg 120w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IRS-Criminal-Investigation.-308x192.jpg 308w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IRS-Criminal-Investigation..jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Beginning in 2014 and through 2019, Smith promoted and sold tax deductions to his wealthy clients in the form of units in illegal syndicated conservation easement tax shelters organized and created by co-defendants Fisher, Sinnott, and Joy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">From 2015 through 2019, Tomasello also promoted and sold units in the Jack Fisher syndicated conservation easement tax shelters to his wealthy clients at another firm. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Tomasello earned about $525,072 in commissions from Fisher and Sinnott for his role in promoting and selling the illegal tax shelters to clients, and his accounting firm received approximately $2.4 million in commissions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Smith earned approximately $491,400 in commissions from Fisher and Sinnott for his role in promoting and selling the illegal tax shelters to clients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Smith and Tomasello each face a maximum sentence of five years in prison. They also face a period of supervised release, restitution, and monetary penalties.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">To date, in addition to the convictions of Fisher and Sinnott and Tuesday&#8217;s guilty pleas of Smith and Tomasello, six additional defendants have pleaded guilty to criminal conduct related to Fisher and Sinnott\u2019s syndicated conservation easement tax shelters, including appraiser Walter Douglas \u201cTerry\u201d Roberts, CPAs Stein and Corey Agee, CPA Ralph Anderson, CPA James Benkoil and CPA and Attorney Randall Lenz.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">IRS Criminal Investigation and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service investigated the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Trial Attorneys Richard M. Rolwing, Parker Tobin, Jessica Kraft, Grace Albinson and Nicholas J. Schilling Jr. of the Justice Department\u2019s Tax Division and Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Huber, Deputy Chief of the Complex Frauds Section for the Northern District of Georgia, are prosecuting the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sold Over $1.3 Billion in Fraudulent Tax Deductions Two men were sentenced today for crimes arising from their organization, promotion, and sale of abusive syndicated conservation easement tax shelters, officials stated. 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