According to the indictment and the plea agreement, Alick further admitted that he took various actions to deceive the IRS and to impede its efforts to collect these and other taxes from 2000 through 2006. He also admitted that he caused his corporations to fail to file corporate income tax returns from 2001 through 2006. Finally, Alick admitted that he made extensive use of cash to avoid making accurate records of his income, used nominee bank accounts to conceal his and his corporations' income and assets from the IRS, and cashed checks from his business accounts in various ways to hide his financial activity from the IRS.

The sentencing has been scheduled for June 3, 2010. Alick faces a maximum potential sentence of 20 years in prison followed by up to three years of supervised release, and a fine of $250,000, for each of the mail and wire fraud counts. In addition, Alick faces a maximum potential sentence of three years in prison followed by one year of supervised release and a fine of $250,000, for the tax crime.

Acting Assistant Attorney General John A. DiCicco and United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio Steven M. Dettelbach thanked Assistant United States Attorneys Michael L. Collyer and Christian Stickan and Tax Division trial attorney Patrick J. Murray, who are prosecuting the case. They also thanked the agents of the FBI and the IRS whose assistance was essential to the successful investigation and prosecution of the case.
Additional information about the Justice Department's Tax Division and its enforcement efforts may be found at http://www.usdoj.gov/tax.

Read DOTmed's prior coverage:

Ohio Businessman Indicted on Fraud and Tax Charges
www.dotmed.com/news/story/8351

Medical Dealer Accused by the Feds of Fraud
www.dotmed.com/news/story/4146

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