PRESS RELEASE
Contact: James K. Vines
United States Attorney
(615) 736-5151
READYVILLE RESIDENT CHARGED WITH TAX EVASION
Nashville, TN - April 22, 2003 - James K. Vines, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, announced that a federal grand jury in Nashville returned an indictment against Rickey Paul Brunet charging him with three counts of income tax evasion. The indictment, returned on April 10, 2003, was unsealed before U.S. District Magistrate Judge Brown on April 21, 2003.
The indictment alleges that Brunet, a computer aided design draftsman, failed
to file income tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service for the calendar
years 1996, 1997, and 1998, attempted to cause his social security number to
be concealed from the IRS, and attempted to discourage employees of a company
called Square D from cooperating with IRS inquiries concerning him and a corporation
called Brunet, Inc. around July 1998. Additionally, the indictment states that
on or about August 31, 1998, Brunet wrote that he was "exempt" from
federal withholding on a Form W-4 provided by a company called Westaff.
According to the indictment, from 1993 until approximately June 1995, Brunet
worked as an independent contractor and received Forms 1099 documenting income
that he received during the years 1993-1995. Around June 1995, Brunet caused
a Tennessee corporation named Brunet, Inc., to be formed, and from 1996 through
1998, Brunet caused businesses to pay Brunet, Inc., for services performed by
Brunet.
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