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Date: 11-22-2022

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United States of America v. Oleksandr Morgunov

Case Number: 4:21-cr-10008

Judge: Jose E. Martinez

Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (Monroe County)

Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office

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Description: Key West, Florida criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with immigration conspiracy related to the operation of several Key West labor staffing companies.

From January 2016 through at least January 2021, Oleksandr Morgunov, formerly of Key West, helped operate Paradise Choice LLC, Paradise Choice Cleaning LLC, Tropical City Services LLC and Tropical City Group LLC, all of which were labor staffing companies in southern Florida. The staffing companies facilitated the employment of individuals in hotels, bars and restaurants in Key West and other locations, even though the employees were not authorized to work in the United States.

As part of his plea, Morgunov admitted that he and his co-conspirators paid the workers without withholding Social Security, Medicare and income taxes from their wages, then did not report those wages to the IRS as required by law. Morgunov also acknowledged that he and his co-conspirators defrauded the IRS out of more than $7.9 million in employment taxes.

He faces a maximum penalty of ten years in prison for conspiring to harbor aliens and induce them to remain in the United States. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Juan Antonio Gonzalez for the Southern District of Florida made the announcement.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations and IRS-Criminal Investigation are investigating the case.

Senior Litigation Counsel Sean Beaty and Trial Attorneys Jessica A. Kraft and Nicholas J. Schilling, Jr., of the Tax Division and Assistant U.S. Attorney Chris Clark of the Southern District of Florida are prosecuting the case.

8:1324.F CONSPIRACY TO HARBOR ALIENS AND INDUCE THEM TO REMAIN
(1)
8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(v)(I) CONSPIRACY TO HARBOR ALIENS AND INDUCE THEM TO REMAIN
(1s)
18:1956-7477.F MONEY LAUNDERING CONSPIRACY AND FORFEITURE COUNT
(2)
18 U.S.C. § 1956(h) MONEY LAUNDERING CONSPIRACY
(2s)
18 U.S.C. § 371 CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE UNITED STATES
(3s)

Outcome: Defendant pled guilty.

11/23/2022 355 Notice of Presentence Investigation Assignment of Oleksandr Morgunov to US Probation Officer Lakiesha Brantley in the Miami Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. U.S. Courthouse and she can be contacted at (305)523-5347 or Lakiesha_Brantley@flsp.uscourts.gov. (lrn) (Entered: 11/23/2022)

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