10/03/2024 | Press release | Archived content
Date: Oct. 3, 2024
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Camden, NJ - Two men from Camden, New Jersey, were indicted for their roles in conspiring to defraud the IRS by concealing cash wages paid to a business's employees, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
Tri Anh Tieu and Andy Tran both of Camden, New Jersey, were both charged with one count of conspiring to defraud the United States. They were arraigned before U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth A. Pascal in Camden federal court on Oct. 2, 2024, and were each released on $100,000 unsecured bond.
According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:
The count of conspiracy to defraud the United States carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
U.S. Attorney Sellinger credited special agents of IRS-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), under the direction of Acting Special Agent in Charge Amy MacNeely in Philadelphia and Special Agent in Charge Jenifer L. Piovesan in Newark, with the investigation leading to the charge.
The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Bender of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Camden.
The charges and allegations contained in the indictment are merely accusations, and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
IRS-CI is the criminal investigative arm of the IRS, responsible for conducting financial crime investigations, including tax fraud, narcotics trafficking, money-laundering, public corruption, healthcare fraud, identity theft and more. IRS-CI special agents are the only federal law enforcement agents with investigative jurisdiction over violations of the Internal Revenue Code, obtaining a more than a 90 percent federal conviction rate. The agency has 20 field offices located across the U.S. and 12 attaché posts abroad.