Content From David J Griggs

Managing your spouse's finances may complicate your tax filing process. Knowing whether you are an injured or innocent spouse is critical if you owe money in unpaid taxes.

Here's how to tell the difference with an innocent spouse vs an injured spouse and what relief you might get.

The parts manager for a multi-state business, John Cox, was sentenced to 36 months in prison for wire fraud, filing a false tax return and failing to file a tax return. From 2018 to 2020 Cox ordered parts and products that the business did not need, using his employer’s funds, in order to sell them […]

Jonathan Wichman was sentenced to 24 months in prison for evading income taxes for seven years, despite making more than 2.3 million dollars in wages during that time. Beginning in 2014 Whitman stopped filing tax returns, despite receiving multiple notices from the IRS. In 2019, he filed returns for 2014 through 2018, but did not […]

Maria Mendoza, a Las Vegas tax preparer, was sentenced to three years in prison for filing more than 700 fraudulent tax returns and causing the IRS a loss of 1.2 million dollars. Mendoza used false and inflated deductions and credits on her clients’ tax returns, in addition to using her clients’ personal identifying information to […]

A Kentucky lawyer, Andrew Clooney, and his wife, Christel Clooney, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and failure to pay taxes. Clooney was a personal injury attorney through the Clooney Law Office, and his wife was the office manager. From 2016 to 2018 the Clooneys used funds that belonged to their clients for personal use. Clooney […]