This is my old tax guy aka "the wizard" he had a magic pencil, and believe me he did. All good things must come to an end, or so they say! F#%K the IRS! I am down to pay taxes to better my city, country etc. But it is really bogus to see our tax dollars sent to iraq to fund a war and build nice new schools and stuff over there. How bout build some new rec centers and schools in North Philly!
Free Bart.
interesting read, it is the official court doc with the irs agents encounter and tax preperation with Bart.
Bartholomew Iacono and Regina Iacono-Dostillio are charged with conspiracy to
defraud the United States and filing false tax returns in connection with their business,
Gentile’s Tax Service, located on South 16 Street in Philadelphia. According to theth
Information, fraudulent returns were prepared for clients for tax years 2003, 2004, and 2005.
Bartholomew Iacono allegedly created or inflated clients’ charitable deductions, un-
reimbursed employee expenses, and/or education deductions. The Information alleges the
defendants prepared returns that resulted in tax refunds for some clients that the defendants
knew actually owed income taxes, resulting in a total loss to the IRS of more than $125,000.
If convicted, the defendants each face a maximum sentence of eight years in prison.
THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA : CRIMINAL NO. _____________
v. : DATE FILED: _______________
BARTHOLOMEW IACONO : VIOLATIONS:
REGINA IACONO-DOSTILLIO 18 U.S.C. § 371 (conspiracy to defraud the
: United States - 1 count)
26 U.S.C. § 7206(2) (aiding and assisting
: the filing of false tax returns - 2 counts)
I N F O R M A T I O N
COUNT ONE
THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY CHARGES THAT:
At all time relevant to this information:
Gentile’s Tax Service
1. Gentile’s Tax Service was a business located at 2800 South 16 Street,th
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that provided tax return preparation services to clients for a fee.
2. Defendant BARTHOLOMEW IACONO was an owner of Gentile’s Tax
Service, and provided tax return preparation services to its clients.
3. Defendant REGINA IACONO-DOSTILLIO represented herself as an
owner of Gentile’s Tax Service and provided tax return preparation services to its clients.
4. Gentile’s Tax Service prepared and assisted in the preparation of U.S.
Individual Income Tax Returns, Form 1040, including Schedule A - Itemized Deductions and
Schedule C - Profit or Loss from Business forms, for tax years 2003, 2004 and 2005, inclusive.
The April 12, 2005 Undercover Operation
5. On April 12, 2005, a special agent of the Criminal Investigative Division
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of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) of the United States Treasury, who unbeknownst to the
defendants was acting in an undercover capacity posing as an individual taxpayer (“the UCA”),
requested Gentile’s Tax Service to prepare his federal income tax return for tax year 2004.
6. On April 12, 2005, the UCA met with defendant BARTHOLOMEW
IACONO in his business office at 2800 South 16 Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and duringth
the meeting, defendant BARTHOLOMEW IACONO prepared a U.S. Individual Income Tax
Return, Form 1040, with a Schedule A, for the UCA.
7. On April 12, 2005, the UCA provided taxpayer information to defendant
BARTHOLOMEW IACONO reflecting that the amount of federal income tax due and owing to
the United States of America by the UCA for tax year 2004, if calculated in accordance with
revenue laws, would have been $10,719. The UCA also provided income tax withholding
information to defendant BARTHOLOMEW IACONO reflecting that the UCA had paid
$10,206 in withholding taxes. Accordingly, the UCA’s federal income tax return for tax year
2004 should have reflected income tax due in the amount of $513.
8. On April 12, 2005, defendant BARTHOLOMEW IACONO prepared a
Schedule A form for the UCA for tax year 2004, which claimed a deduction in the amount of
$6,825 for charitable contributions, even though the UCA told BARTHOLOMEW IACONO that
he had not made any charitable contributions during 2004, and the UCA provided no documents
to support the deduction claimed by BARTHOLOMEW IACONO on the Schedule A form.
9. On April 12, 2005, defendant BARTHOLOMEW IACONO prepared a
Schedule A form for the UCA for tax year 2004, which claimed a deduction of $9,295 for un-
reimbursed employee expenses, even though the UCA told BARTHOLOMEW IACONO that he
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had no un-reimbursed employee expenses during 2004 and provided no receipts to support the
deduction claimed by BARTHOLOMEW IACONO on the Schedule A form.
10. On April 12, 2005, defendant BARTHOLOMEW IACONO prepared a
U.S. Individual Income Tax Return for the UCA for tax year 2004, Form 1040 with a Schedule
A, which stated that the UCA was due a refund of $3,225.
11. While preparing the UCA’s income tax return on April 12, 2005,
defendant BARTHOLOMEW IACONO and the UCA discussed “magic pencils.”
12. While preparing the UCA’s income tax return on April 12, 2005,
defendant BARTHOLOMEW IACONO (“BI”) had the following conversation with the UCA:
UCA: What are you doing over here?
BI: Uniforms, shirts, uniforms, safety shoes.
UCA: Safety shoes? Do I got to give you receipts for this shit?
BI: If you got audited.
UCA: If I got audited?
BI: They got lost and you moved, you had a flood and stuff (unintelligible
(“UI”)).
UCA: Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, the flood. I remember the flood, yeah.
BI: August 1 or 3?st rd
UCA: The flood of August 1, is that what is was? I have to remember that. st
What the hell are you writing over there with that little teeny point?
BI: Uniforms. I put safety shoes down, and there’s rain and safety gear, etc.,
the water and soap, and all. With that kind of money, about $1,822, you
think?
UCA: Okay.
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BI: Now you have work tools because if the guys lose their tools and all, you
got to help them with tools – about $2,155. Okay? Job related expenses.
You probably have a cell phone, right, that they call you on and all that,
right, you have a business phone?
UCA: That is a magic pencil!
13. On April 12, 2005, the UCA asked defendant BARTHOLOMEW
IACONO: “What am I going to do if I get audited? I ain’t got no receipts?” and IACONO
responded: “Will you stop? You act like a little cry baby, God darn. A big guy like you comes
in crying and crying.”
14 While preparing the UCA’s income tax return on April 12, 2005,
defendant BARTHOLOMEW IACONO had the following conversation with the UCA:
BI: You didn’t go to school or anything, did you?
UCA: Why? You trying to say I ain’t educated?
BI: I didn’t say that. I asked you if you went to school. It’s a deduction. I try
to get – it’s $960 ...
UCA: Oh, wait a minute, listen to you. Did I go to school? You tell me if I
went.
BI: I can’t tell you that. You have to tell me. Then I do the magic.
UCA: Oh yeah, what’s this? You told me so?
BI: No. I asked you and you told me and then I agreed with (UI). “I swear,
your honor, I only did what he told to me to do and I told him ...”
15. While preparing the UCA’s federal income tax return on April 12, 2005,
defendant BARTHOLOMEW IACONO had the following conversation with the UCA:
UCA: What would I have had to pay if I didn’t ....
BI: Just a straight form you mean?
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UCA: Yeah, if I – you know, without all the stuff?
BI: You wouldn’t have – I can give you that. You’re single, $4,850 and
$3,100. You would have been taxed (UI), taxed on $40,000, ... $40,900,
you would have been taxed on $55,900, ... $55,900.
UCA: What are you laughing at?
BI: Because I know what you’re going to owe. $55,941. $55,900, you would
have to pay the government as a single, $10,719, and you gave them
$10,206. You would have owed $513.
UCA: I would have owed $513?
BI: I just did it for you. That’s going on a straight form.
UCA: And I got what, $3,225?
BI: Right.
UCA: You’re the man, you’re the man!
16. On April 12, 2005, the UCA paid Gentile’s Tax Service $120 in cash for
professional services rendered in the preparation of the UCA’s federal income tax return for tax
year 2004.
THE CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD
17. Beginning in or about January 2003 and continuing through in or about
April 2006, in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and elsewhere, the defendants
BARTHOLOMEW IACONO, and
REGINA IACONO-DOSTILLIO
conspired and agreed, together and with other persons known and unknown, to defraud the
United States by impeding, impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful governmental
functions of the IRS of the United States Treasury Department in the ascertainment, computation,
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assessment, and collection of income taxes due and owing to the United States from clients of
Gentile’s Tax Service.
MANNER AND MEANS
It was part of the conspiracy to defraud that:
18. Defendants BARTHOLOMEW IACONO and REGINA IACONO-
DOSTILLIO prepared materially false and fraudulent Schedule A and Schedule C forms, when
providing income tax return preparation services for clients of Gentile’s Tax Service, by claiming
deductions for charitable contributions, un-reimbursed employee business expenses, and other
business expenses, when in fact, as the defendants well knew, the clients of Gentile’s Tax
Services had not incurred the deductions as claimed on the Schedule A and Schedule C forms.
19. Defendants BARTHOLOMEW IACONO and REGINA IACONO-
DOSTILLIO prepared materially false and fraudulent Schedule A and Schedule C forms for
clients of Gentile’s Tax Service, by claiming deductions for charitable contributions, un-
reimbursed employee business expenses, and other business expenses, even though, as the
defendants well knew, the clients had no receipts or documentation to support the deductions as
claimed on the Schedule A and Schedule C forms.
20. Defendants BARTHOLOMEW IACONO and REGINA IACONO-
DOSTILLIO prepared materially false and fraudulent Form 1040 individual income tax returns
for clients of Gentile’s Tax Service, by claiming refunds were owed to the clients, when in fact,
as the defendants well knew, the clients were not entitled to the amount of the claimed refund or
had income taxes due and owing to the United States of America.
21. Defendants BARTHOLOMEW IACONO and REGINA IACONO-
DOSTILLIO used a stamp bearing the mark “Gentile Income Tax Service, 2800 So. 16 Street,th
1 Flr., Philadelphia, PA, 19145, SS# XXX-XX-9117” when providing income tax returnst
preparation services to clients of Gentile’s Tax Service.
22. Defendants BARTHOLOMEW IACONO and REGINA IACONO-
DOSTILLIO signed and subscribed Form 1040 individual income tax returns prepared for clients
of Gentile’s Tax Service, as paid tax preparers.
23. Defendants BARTHOLOMEW IACONO and REGINA IACONO-
DOSTILLIO accepted cash payments from clients of Gentile’s Tax Service in payment of fees
owed to Gentile’s Tax Service for professional income tax return preparation services.
24. Defendants BARTHOLOMEW IACONO and REGINA IACONO-
DOSTILLIO treated income derived from their operation of Gentile’s Tax Service as “family
money.”
OVERT ACTS
In furtherance of the conspiracy and to accomplish its objects, the defendants
committed the following overt acts, among others, in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania,
namely, the preparation of materially false and fraudulent U.S. Individual Income Tax Returns,
Form 1040 with supporting schedules, for the clients of Gentile’s Tax Service described in the
following table:
this is a cool installation, and it goes well with todays post, this is like a typical day at the office for the irs, trying to mess with the working class!
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