Issac Lanier Avant |
It looks as if we have ourselves another top congressional staffer caught up in some hustling and you know what that means!
A pattern of practice called an investigation of fraud.
The tax avoidance charges for failing to report his employments (the 's' is intentional) is nothing more than legal posturing because there is much more to the backstory.
Why would the Internal Revenue Service partner with the Federal Bureau of Investigation which probably coordinated with House Ethics Committee?
I know! It's a collaboration and they are coordinating it all over the place....in offices, in committees, in chambers, in branches, in geopolitical states.
And to think, it all started in Detroit.
Now, approach these investigations in the following manner: "If there is a new operational structure being implemented between these federal entities with powers of subpoena, then the final targets of fraudulent activities of governments (again, the 's' is intentional) are going to be groundbreaking."
Something tells me there is a long to-do list of the ethical clean up machine to ameliorate personal inurement of public office and to end manipulation of the public record.
Yes, boys and girls, there are substantial movements from the "Old School Legal Playas" and it is quite the bipartisan union, neigh, internationally conjugal coordination.
Much more to come...
Old School Legal Playa with authority |
Congressional Staffer Sentenced to Prison for Failure to File Income Tax Returns
A congressional staffer was sentenced to prison today for willfully failing to file an individual income tax return, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente for the Eastern District of Virginia.
According to documents filed with the court, Issac Lanier Avant, a resident of Arlington, Virginia, has been employed by the U.S. House of Representatives as a Chief of Staff since 2002. In December 2006, Avant assumed the additional role of Democratic Staff Director for the House Committee on Homeland Security. Despite earning more than $165,000, Avant failed to timely file his 2009 through 2013 individual income tax returns, causing a tax loss of $153,522. Avant had no federal income withheld during those years because in May 2005, he caused a form to be filed with his employer that falsely claimed he was exempt from federal income taxes. Avant did not have any federal tax withheld from his paycheck until the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) mandated that his employer begin withholding in January 2013. Avant did not file tax returns until after he was interviewed by federal agents.
The court imposed a prison term of approximately 4 months, consisting of 30 days incarceration, followed by incarceration every weekend for 12 months. Avant was also ordered to serve a one-year term of supervised release and to pay restitution in the amount of $149,962 to the IRS.
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ciraolo and U.S. Attorney Boente thanked special agents of IRS-Criminal Investigation and the FBI, who conducted the investigation, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jack Hanly and Assistant Chief Todd Ellinwood of the Tax Division, who are prosecuting the case.
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