(FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE)
 
 

Lake Charles, Louisiana . . . today United States District Judge James T. Trimble sentenced Ashvinkumar Gandhi, age 52, of Galveston, Texas, ordering him to serve 10 months in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons, with 5 of those months to be served in a halfway house and the other 5 months to be served in home confinement, thereafter serving 2 years supervised release.  GANDHI was also ordered to pay a $30,000 fine and $405,495 in restitution, announced United States Attorney Donald W. Washington.  GANDHI pled guilty to in September of 2001 to a bill of information filed in July of 2001.

In 1995, GANDHI set up a system for skimming cash receipts from his motel receipts and thereby causing taxable income not to be reported.

This investigation was conducted by the United States Internal Revenue Service, Lafayette agency and was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Larry Regan.

Sentencing in federal court is governed by the United States Sentencing Guidelines.  Parole has been abolished in the federal system.

For further information, please contact United States Attorney Donald W. Washington at 337-262-6618 or First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Flanagan at 318-676-3600.

This and other press releases issued by the United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Louisiana can be found at our website at www.usdoj.gov/usao/law.

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