A New York man is off the hook for a $3 million tax bill after an administrative law judge found the state didn’t prove the amount of income he failed to report as a result of his criminal activities.
Carlos Deleon pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the US for cashing over $1.5 million in fraudulently obtained tax refund checks. In 2013, the judge in the criminal case found $300,000 of the total was attributable to Deleon and found him jointly and severally liable for the full amount with his convicted co-conspirators.
After Deleon served his six-month ...