(FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE)
 
 

Lafayette, Louisiana . . . MARVIN K. SULLIVAN, age 55, of Lafayette, Louisiana, was sentenced yesterday  by United States District Judge Tucker Melançon to one year and one day imprisonment and one  year supervised release following confinement, United States Attorney Donald W. Washington announced.   SULLIVAN pled guilty in June 2001, to a Bill of Information charging him with making and subscribing a false tax return.

According to a factual stipulation filed into the court records, SULLIVAN knowingly filed a false income tax return for calendar year 1995.  While employed as the Chief Operating Officer of Deland & Noell Corporation (D&N), SULLIVAN devised a scheme to manipulate the computerized payroll system so as not to record the amount of his annual bonus.  Thus, from 1989 to 1995, annual bonuses in the aggregate amount of $350,000 were not reported  on SULLIVAN’s Form W-2.  As a result, SULLIVAN received his annual bonuses tax-free and paid no taxes on his salary because he had not income tax withholdings of his own.  According to the stipulations, SULLIVAN intentionally omitted his annual bonus income, falsely claimed federal income tax withholdings, and took a false deduction for state taxes paid to the State of Louisiana on his U.S. Individual Income Tax Return.  As a result, SULLIVAN failed to report $125,000 in bonus income on his tax return.   This investigation was conducted by the Internal Revenue Service. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Howard C. Parker.

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.

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