Newsletter December 2025
Newsletter december 2025
Volume 25, Number 12
Cheshier Tax Resolution Times
The Frontline Defender for the Distressed Taxpayer
IRS Prescribes 34 Months in Prison for Tax Evading Physician
A physician has been sentenced to 34 months in prison for a long-running scheme in which he hid assets, lied to the IRS, and submitted false Medicare billings while owing approximately 1.6 million dollars in taxes, penalties, and interest.
Krishnaswami Sriram owed the IRS for tax years 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001 and 2012, and spent years shifting assets in an attempt to avoid paying. He transferred two rental properties into his children’s names without their knowledge, while continuing to collect income from them, and he wired roughly $700,000 from U.S. bank accounts he controlled to accounts in India.
To further conceal his ability to pay the taxes he owed, Sriram submitted misleading documents to the IRS in an offer-in-compromise, omitting an investment account in the United States, bank and investment accounts overseas, and ownership of the rental properties.
Sriram also engaged in health care fraud between 2012 and 2022 by billing Medicare for in-home physician visits that never occurred. He claimed to have treated patients after they had passed away or were living in inpatient facilities. His false entries in medical records resulted in $136,980.36 in fraudulent billings.
In addition to the prison term, the court ordered Sriram to serve three years of supervised release and to pay approximately 1.7 million dollars in restitution.
Attorney Learns Hard Way You Can’t Expense Your Love Life
Former Chicago attorney Michael Abramson is trading luxury for lockdown after being found guilty of tax fraud, witness tampering and violating a court order.
Abramson funneled more than one million dollars in personal expenses for a Gold Coast condo, fancy cars, travel, shopping, and high-end dining to a romantic partner, and disguised the purchases as commissions or loans on his tax returns. Once arraigned, he tried to get his bookkeeper, a key witness, to lie by handing her a copy of her previous testimony and telling her where she needed to make changes. The bookkeeper immediately turned the notes over to law enforcement.
He was sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined $25,000.
“I don’t know If I can live on my income or not. The government won’t let me try it.”
Bob Thaves
Tax Evader Can’t Evade
the IRS
Jawad Fakroune was indicted
for defrauding victims out of
at least 2.6 million dollars and
failing to file income tax
returns for a four year period.
Fakroune operated an
elaborate web of schemes,
including a 2022 fraud in
which he convinced a victim
to hand over about 2.45
million dollars for supposed
investments in a shipping
container business and a
marijuana growing operation.
Instead of investing the
money, Fakroune funneled the
cash into personal luxuries.
He bought a home in Illinois,
paid rent for a residence in
New York, took lavish NYC
shopping and restaurant trips,
bought high-end watches, and
a Cadillac Escalade.
He later conned someone else
out of $150,000 for an
investment in either a coffee
shop or Mexican restaurant
and promised a $300,000
repayment that never came.
He did not file any tax returns
for tax years 2020 through
2023 and faces prison and
restitution.
Man Coaches Others On “How To
Commit Tax Fraud” Gets Indicted
Melvin Hughes was indicted in Los Angeles for a tax refund scheme that ran from
2016 through 2025.
Hughes is accused of masterminding an operation built on fraudulent IRS filings,
including false Forms 1041 and Forms 1099, claiming more than $360 million in
fictitious refunds for estates and trusts. In 2024 and 2025, he doubled down by
filing false individual Forms 1040 seeking more than $370 million in additional
refunds.
While he didn’t get all that he asked for, Hughes did manage to collect about 6.2
million dollars in actual refund money. He spent the ill-gotten gains lavishly
purchasing a 1.84-million-dollar Malibu home, two Tesla vehicles, and roughly
$500,000 in cryptocurrency.
Hughes promoted his get rich quick scheme to at least 17 other taxpayers and
charged various fees along the way. From at least five of them, he demanded 10
percent of their refund amounts and instructed them to send the money to Brother
to Brother Outreach Trust, a trust he created and falsely described as charitable.
He collected $868,704.45 in fees and caused an estimated 13-million-dollar tax
loss to the IRS.
He faces up to 20 years plus in prison and millions in restitution.
Lab Owner’s Scheme of Evading Over $11
Million in Taxes Tests IRS Patience-
Faces up to 20 Years!
A Los Angeles business owner, Armen Muradyan, has admitted to a sweeping tax
and health care fraud scheme that allowed him to evade more than 11.2 million
dollars in federal taxes while siphoning millions in Medicare reimbursements
through a longtime friend acting as a fake business owner. Muradyan pleaded
guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud, wire fraud, and tax evasion, all
tied to his control of Genex Laboratories, a blood testing company.
Muradyan, banned by Medicare from submitting claims under his own name due
to previous fraud, paid a friend $2,000 per month to pose as Genex’s owner and
submit Medicare paperwork on his behalf. Millions of dollars in Medicare
reimbursements were deposited into bank accounts opened by the friend but
secretly controlled by Muradyan.
Between 2015 and 2020, Muradyan instructed the friend to report Genex’s
financial activity on the friend’s personal tax returns, showing the company had
minimal profit or operated at a loss. At the same time, Muradyan filed his own
returns claiming an income of only $40,000 per year, despite personally receiving
millions. He then failed to file any tax returns at all for 2021, 2022, and 2023.
In total, Muradyan concealed $23,915,762 in income, avoiding approximately
$11,236,357 in taxes. He faces up to 20 years for wire fraud, 10 years for health
care fraud, five years for tax evasion and millions in restitution.
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Employee Rolls
the Dice with
Company
Funds –
Gamble Doesn’t
Pay Off
Justin Marquardt pleaded guilty
to embezzling more than 1.5
million dollars from his
employer and failing to report
any of the money on his tax
returns.
Marquardt took advantage of his
role as executive director, a
position that gave him access to
company finances, from 1994 to
Without authorization, he
transferred money from his
employer’s bank accounts into
his own and wrote unauthorized
checks to himself. He covered
his tracks by inventing fake
business expenses and altering
QuickBooks records.
He spent much of the embezzled
funds on personal expenses,
including extensive travel,
online gambling, and casino
gaming.
Marquardt did not report the
illicit income on his tax returns
from 2017–2020, and again in
2023.
He faces up to 20 years in prison
for wire fraud and up to three
years for filing a false tax return,
in addition to restitution.
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Your IRS Questions Answered Here…
Question: I’m currently separated from my spouse, who owns his own business, and
we are getting a divorce. I have always filed jointly with my husband and now the
IRS is sending me notices stating I owe $87,000. I have no idea how they are coming
up with this amount as my spouse always took care of paying the IRS what was owed.
Answer: You may be able to avoid this liability entirely under the IRS’s Innocent
Spouse Relief rules. Under federal law if an income tax return is signed by both
husband and wife, both spouses are 100% responsible for the taxes owed. However,
the law permits special consideration where a spouse cannot be held responsible for the
underreporting of income or the understatement of tax that are attributable to the other
spouse.
If you meet the following criteria, you may be able to apply for Equitable Relief under
IRS’s innocent spouse rules: If the amount reported on your joint tax return is correct
but wasn’t paid with the return you may be eligible. Or, if you feel you were deceived
by your spouse or tricked into signing a return you thought was correct this will help
your case too. There are many other ways you may be eligible for relief under the
IRS’s innocent spouse rules, and we can help sort this out and determine the proper
path for resolution.
We at Cheshier Tax Resolution are experts in IRS tax problem resolution and help
taxpayers with their IRS Problems every day. There is a solution to EVERY
problem. Call us today! Contact Linda @ 469-647-9950 for a FREE confidential
consultation