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IRS is watching the detectives

June 10, 2009

Tax laws are laws too. A former D.C. police officer learned that the hard way:

Willie Borden, a former Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department officer, pleaded guilty today to a criminal tax charge before U.S. District Court Judge James Robertson, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.
According to the court proceedings, Borden was the co-owner of B&B Security Consultants located at 1219 Good Hope Road, SE, in Washington, DC. B&B was in the business of providing security guards to various entities and events in the District of Columbia and throughout the metropolitan area.

Borden shared responsibility to collect, account for and pay over employment taxes for B&B. However, during 2002 through 2006, although Borden and his business partner withheld more than $2.1 million in payroll taxes from employee paychecks, they did not pay this sum over to the IRS, as the law requires.

Did he think nobody would notice?