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North Shore Bookmaker Sentenced To Federal Prison For Filing False Tax Returns
BOSTON, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- A Danvers man was sentenced yesterday in federal court for filing false tax returns.
United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan; Douglas A. Bricker, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation in New England, and Colonel Mark Delaney, Superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police announced today that JOSEPH RANTZ, age 39, of 19 Belgian Road, Danvers, Massachusetts, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Patti B. Saris to 1 year and 3 months' imprisonment, to be followed by 1 year of supervised release. On June 2, 2006, RANTZ pleaded guilty to a four-count Information charging him with filing false and fraudulent income tax returns for tax years 1999 through 2002.
At the earlier plea hearing, the prosecutor told the Court that, had the case proceeded to trial, the Government's evidence would have proven that RANTZ had operated an illegal bookmaking business on the North Shore for approximately a decade and had not reported over a half million dollars in illegal income on his federal income tax forms for tax years 1999 through 2002, resulting in a tax loss of over $140,000.
The case was investigated by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation and the Massachusetts State Police. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Hamilton in Sullivan's Economic Crimes Unit.
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