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Going old school on the mob

October 15, 2009

Just like they did with Capone, they still get Chicago gangsters on tax charges:

Rudolph C. "Rudy" Fratto, 65, of Darien, who comes from a family of alleged mobsters, admitted to failing to pay more than $140,000 in federal taxes on more than $800,000 in income from 2001 to 2007, according to his plea agreement in a case investigated by the Internal Revenue Service.

Fratto evaded the taxes by having various firms pay him through a defunct business whose checking account he controlled. One of those businesses included a gaming company in the northwest suburbs that specializes in lotteries and paid him about $58,000 in 2005 for handyman work.

No matter what they do to close the tax gap, I doubt if they'll ever get these guys to sweat out complete and accurate 1040s.

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