| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 17, 2009 WWW.USDOJ.GOV/USAO/CAN |
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Nwadinaume Uba pleaded guilty yesterday to three counts of filing a false tax return, United States Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello and Special Agent in Charge, IRS Criminal Investigation, Scott O’Briant announced.
According to the plea agreement, Uba owned and operated TLC Prostaffing and Evergreen Health Care Connection, staffing businesses for nursing care facilities located in San Jose. On her 2001, 2002 and 2003 personal income tax returns, Uba admitted that she omitted a significant amount of gross receipts on her Schedule C (Profit of Loss from Business). She failed to provide her bookkeeper/tax preparer with any information on Evergreen Health Care Connection and also did not disclose all of the bank accounts for TLC Prostaffing to which income was deposited. As a result, the amounts reported as annual gross receipts on her returns were understated by $859,696.84, which resulted in a tax loss to the United States of $258,741.
Uba, a resident of Henderson, Nev., was indicted by a federal grand jury on March 13, 2008.
Under the terms of the plea agreement filed yesterday, Uba agreed to 18 months imprisonment, 1 year of supervised release and restitution of $258,741, plus statutory interest.
Uba is scheduled to be sentenced on June 22 before United States District Court Judge James Ware in San Jose, California. The maximum statutory penalty for each count of filing a false tax return in violation of Title 26 U.S.C. § 7206(1) is three years in prison and a fine of $100,000, plus restitution. However, any sentence following conviction would be imposed by the court after consideration of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and the federal statute governing the imposition of a sentence, 18 U.S.C. 3553.
Thomas Moore is the Assistant U.S. Attorney who is prosecuting the case with the assistance of Kathy Tat. The prosecution is the result of an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation.
Further Information:
Case CR 08-0158 JW
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