WHITE PLAINS ? A Tuckahoe accountant has been sentenced to five months in prison for preparing phony tax documents for clients.
Pierce Perrine, 52, pleaded guilty in September to obstruction of justice, admitting he had fabricated IRS documents.
Perrine was charged in April 2010 in a criminal complaint filed by agents with the federal Treasury Department.
In the complaint filed by Agent William Kalb, investigators said Perrine created four bogus documents for two clients that purported to remove tax levies on the clients.
Those bogus documents releasing the levies were then sent to the clients' banks, freeing up funds that should have remained held.
As a result, $28,252 in taxes went unpaid.
A lawyer for Perrine did not return calls seeking comment. His wife hung up on a reporter.
In court papers filed before his sentencing by U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel, Perrine's lawyer, Lawrence Maffei, said Perrine never intended for the government to suffer any loss. Maffei said Perrine never intended to deprive the IRS of money owed but "sought to rectify stories that he thought were inaccurate."
Seibel also fined Perrine $10,000 and sentenced him to one year of post-release supervision during which time he can not do any work involving taxes.
Source: http://www.lohud.com/article/20110628/NEWS02/106280320
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