An Alaskan couple in Klawock have been charged in federal court in Juneau with four counts of failure to pay their income taxes, Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced in a press release on Wednesday. According to the Justice Department, Archie W. Demmert III and Roseann L. Demmert, of Klawock, have through the years, failed to […]
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has loosened the government’s enforcement of a rule that bars tax-exempt churches from participating in political activity. Trump signed an executive order Thursday that gives “maximum enforcement discretion” to the country’s tax agency, the Internal Revenue Service, in tracking the ban on political activity by religious groups, an edict that already […]
An Anchorage couple was found guilty on 12 counts of wire fraud in a scheme to defraud State Farm Insurance, it was announced by the Department of Justice on Wednesday. According to the release by U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler, Arnold Wesley Flowers, II, age 41, and Miranda May Flowers, age 31, were found guilty of […]
It was announced by the Justice Department that 60-year-old James R. Back was convicted in U.S. District Court in Anchorage on seven federal tax crimes on Thursday. Back, an Alyeska Pipeline technician was found guilty by a eight-woman/four-man jury after a one hour deliberation that concluded a three-day trial. He had gone to trial on […]