Quincy Man Sentenced to More Than One Year in Prison for Filing False Tax Returns

BOSTON - A Quincy man was sentenced today in federal district court in Boston for filing false corporate tax returns to hide over $10 million in corporate revenue and to evade over $2 million in taxes.

Su Nguyen, 60, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Court Judge William G. Young to 18 months in prison, followed by 12 months of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay $2,090,192.77 in restitution. In May 2024, Su pleaded guilty to three counts of aiding and assisting in the filing of false tax returns. In October 2023, Nguyen was indicted by a federal grand jury.

Between 2016 and 2020, Nguyen owned and operated General Employment Services (GES), a temporary employment agency operating in Massachusetts. Clients paid GES by check for the work performed by GES employees. Nguyen deposited a small number of client checks in a bank account that Nguyen used for GES business and reported that income to the IRS. However, Nguyen cashed the majority of client checks at a check casher located in Worcester and used that cash on himself and to pay employees' wages off-the-books. In total, Nguyen cashed over $10 million in client checks and did not report that revenue or the wages paid in cash to the IRS. By doing so, Nguyen and GES failed to pay over $2 million in taxes.

United States Attorney Joshua S. Levy; Jonathan Wlodyka, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation in Boston; and Jodi Cohen, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Division made the announcement. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Christopher J. Markham and Kriss Basil of the Securities, Financial & Cyber Fraud Unit prosecuted the case.