SoCal Clothing Retailer Gets Two Years for $5.6M Tax Scam

The owner of more than 50 retail clothing stores throughout Southern California was sentenced to two years in prison for evading $5.6 million in taxes and $353,792 in workers’ compensation insurance, prosecutors announced Jan. 17.

Jeong Kim, who owned and operated Fashion Q and Q stores, received two years in prison for sales tax evasion, false income tax returns, failure to pay taxes, and workers’ compensation fraud. He owned stores in Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, San Bernardino, and Ventura counties, according to the government.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said tax evasion is a crime, and noted ...