Florida Tax Defiers and Advisor to Actor Wesley Snipes Convicted for $1 Billion Tax Fraud Scheme
Eddie Ray Kahn, Stephen C. Hunter, Danny True and Allan J. Tanguay, who operated American Rights Litigators/Guiding Light of God Ministries (ARL), were about making money. Specifically--making over $1 billion in false bills of exchange which purported to be drawn on the U.S. Treasury. A jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia convicted Florida residents Kahn, Hunter, True and Tanguay of conspiracy to defraud the United States and to commit mail fraud yesterday following an 18-day trial, according to a Department of Justice press release. Khan, the head of ARL, had previously gained notoriety for giving false tax advice to actor Wesley Snipes, who was found guilty of failure to file tax returns in February of 2008.
The government alleged that, from 1996 through 2004, the defendants, through ARL, enrolled more than 4,000 customers nationwide in tax defiance schemes based on deliberate misrepresentations of the legal foundation of the tax system. The defendants were alleged to have manufactured and sold more than 1,000 phony bills of exchange which were sent to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration in Washington for payment of taxes. The defendants also allegedly continued to submit false and obstructionist correspondence to the Internal Revenue Service even after a preliminary injunction was entered in December of 2003 directing the defendants to stop engaging in their schemes.
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