Tax Fraud: Robert Warren Scully Sentenced For Tax and Wire Fraud Scheme

<h2>San Antonio Businessman Sentenced to Prison for Estimated &dollar;5&period;3 Million Tax And Wire Fraud Scheme<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>A federal judge this morning sentenced a former owner of San Antonio-based Gourmet Express&comma; LLC&comma; a skillet meals manufacturing and distributing business&comma; to 15 years in federal prison for his role in an estimated &dollar;5&period;3 million tax and wire fraud scheme announced United States Attorney Richard L&period; Durbin&comma; Jr&period;&comma; and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge William Cotter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mh-content-ad"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js&quest;client&equals;ca-pub-9162800720558968"&NewLine; crossorigin&equals;"anonymous"><&sol;script>&NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle"&NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;"&NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article"&NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid"&NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-9162800720558968"&NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"1081854981"><&sol;ins>&NewLine;<script>&NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>In addition to the prison term&comma; United States District Judge David A&period; Ezra ordered that Robert Warren Scully pay &dollar;1&comma;206&comma;539&period;94 restitution to the Internal Revenue Service&comma; plus a &dollar;5&comma;000 fine&comma; and be placed on supervised release for a period of three years after completing his prison term&period;  Judge Ezra also ordered that the defendant be taken into custody to begin serving his sentence immediately&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On November 25&comma; 2015&comma; a federal jury in San Antonio convicted Scully of conspiracy to defraud the United States&comma; conspiracy to commit wire fraud&comma; and three substantive wire fraud counts&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Evidence presented in trial revealed that from April 2001 until July 2009&comma; Scully and others conspired to defraud the Internal Revenue Service by hiding earned taxable income generated by his frozen food business&period;  Testimony revealed that Scully and others used intermediary companies in Thailand to provide shrimp and other ingredients at an inflated cost to Gourmet Express&comma; thereby also defrauding his co-owners&period;  Scully and others used the proceeds generated as a result of the inflated costs for personal expenses and failed to disclose that income to the Internal Revenue Service&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Robert Scully used a tangled web of international entities and foreign bank accounts to divert money from his business and evade income taxes&comma;” said IRS Criminal Investigation Acting Special Agent in Charge Troy Caldron&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Scully must now pay for his attempt to support a lavish lifestyle through fraudulent means&period;  Money laundering and tax evasion are not victimless crimes&period;  They constitute a serious threat to our communities&comma; to the integrity of our <a class&equals;"wpil&lowbar;keyword&lowbar;link" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;fraudswatch&period;com&sol;tag&sol;financial-fraud&sol;amp&sol;" title&equals;"financial" data-wpil-keyword-link&equals;"linked" data-wpil-monitor-id&equals;"652">financial<&sol;a> system&comma; and to our national security&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The case resulted from an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation&period;   Assistant United States Attorneys William R&period; Harris&comma; Jay Hulings and Mary Nelda Valadez prosecuted this case on behalf of the Government&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;justice&period;gov&sol;usao-wdtx&sol;pr&sol;san-antonio-businessman-sentenced-prison-estimated-53-million-tax-and-wire-fraud-scheme">Original PressReleases&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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