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Tax Evasion, Fraud Charges Affirmed

By Shari Allison

US v. Thompson, 2008 WL 650009 (10th Cir. Mar. 12, 2008): The Tenth affirms the defendants' convictions on various conspiracy, tax fraud, and tax evasion charges. The opinion is long and detailed, so this is very summary and written late in the day. Defendants Mr. and Mrs. Mower owned three corporations, Neways US, Neways Australia, and Neways Malaysia, that used an Avon-style system to market personal care products (quick description: company sells to distributors at a discount, who then sell to the public at retail price; distributors can recruit more distributors and get bonuses based on their sales). Anyway, Neways US needed money to pay creditors and didn't want to go through a bank, so it started getting money from Neways Australia, some of which was called "prepayment" for product later shipped to Neways Australia and some of which was called "loans...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tenth Circuit Blog on March 14, 2008 (boomark / email).