Please E-mail suggested additions, comments and/or corrections to Kent@MoreLaw.Com.
Date: 04-28-2022
Case Style:
Case Number: 1:20-cr-00068-JJM-LDA
Judge: John J. McConnell, Jr.
Court: United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island (Providence County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office
Defendant's Attorney: Brandon Bell
Description: Providence, Rhode Island criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with willful failure to pay over payroll taxes.
Steven M. Allard, 60, of North Scituate, owner and operator of BR Steel Corporation in Burrillville and Greystone Iron Corporation in Smithfield, previously admitted in court that from at least 2017 through 2018, he failed to turn over to the IRS more than $570,000 in federal employment taxes and FICA payments withheld from his employees. Instead, Allard used the money to pay for personal expenditures including the purchase of more than $216,000 in “credits” to an online dating website, RussianBrides.com, and $93,000 in rent payments for a luxury home in Scituate.
Allard pleaded guilty on September 20, 2020, to willful failure to collect or pay over taxes. He was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Chief Judge John J. McConnell, Jr., to 33 months in federal prison to be followed by three years of federal supervised release; and pay $625,186.29 restitution to the IRS.
This case marks the third federal conviction and sentencing of Allard in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island. In 2009, Allard pleaded guilty to tax evasion and bankruptcy fraud and was sentenced to 30 months in prison. In that matter, Allard admitted that from March 2005 to July 2006, he diverted for his own use $1.6 million dollars due the IRS; and that he made false statements about real estate holdings in a bankruptcy filing in 2005. Prior to that, Allard was found guilty by a jury at trial of accepting kickbacks from public employees and was sentenced to 10 months in federal prison.
Allard’s most recent federal case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Sandra R. Hebert.
Outcome: Defendant 33 months of incarceration as to Count 1; 3 years of Supervised Release as to Count 1, with special conditions; $100 Special Assessment, no fine; Restitution in the amount of $625,186.29
Plaintiff's Experts:
Defendant's Experts:
Comments: