Description: London, Kentucky criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with submitting false documents to the IRS.

Charles Marshall Stivers, age 59, of Manchester, Kentucky was convicted in the Eastern District of Tennessee for participating in a cigarette tax stamp conspiracy; and as a result, he had his CPA license revoked by the Kentucky Board of Accountancy. Despite that, on multiple occasions from 2016 to 2019, Stivers held himself out as a CPA and falsely completed IRS Form 2848s (Power of Attorney and Declaration of Representative) indicating he was a licensed CPA.

Carlton S. Shier, IV, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky; and Kelly K. Moening, Special Agent in Charge, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), Great Lakes Field Division, jointly announced the sentence.

The investigation was conducted by TIGTA. The United States was represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Will Moynahan.

18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(3) FALSE STATEMENTS
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Outcome: 10 MONTHS IMPRISONMENT; 2 YEARS SUPERVISED RELEASE; $100 SPECIAL ASSESSMENT; $30,000 FINE

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