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  • John Balazs is an attorney in Sacramento, California, specializing in criminal defense, including appeals, habeas corpus, pardons, expungements, and civil forfeiture actions. After graduating from UCLA Law School in 1989, he clerked for Judge Harry Pregerson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. John was an Assistant Federal Defender in Fresno and Sacramento from 1992-2001. Please email EDCA items of interest to [email protected]. Follow me on twitter @balazslaw.

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September 15, 2010

72-Year Old Man Gets Prison For Filing False Tax Return

A Sacramento real estate investor has been sentenced to a year and one day in prison for filing false tax documents with the Internal Revenue Service.

U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez also sentenced Wallace Chin, 72, to six months of home detention and one year of supervised release following his prison term, and ordered him to pay $104,997 in restitution to the IRS, according to a federal Department of Justice news release.

Sac Bee, 9-1-1 Blog, 9/14/10

Posted by at 06:00 PM in Tax Prosecutions/IRS |

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