In a turn of events highlighting the relentless pursuit of tax evasion, Alice F. Martin, a 66-year-old trucking company operator from Stark County, Ohio, has been sentenced to a stint behind bars. Information disclosed by the U.S. Department of Justice reveals that Martin was handed a 30-month prison sentence by U.S. District Judge Donald C. Nugent on December 2. Her charges stem from guilty pleas entered in August to Attempt to Evade and Defeat Income Tax, and Attempt to Evade and Defeat Payment of Tax.
Following her prison term, Martin faces three years of supervised release, having been instructed to pay $1,971,660.86 in restitution. Caught evading taxes, penalties, and interest from her trucking company, Martin Logistics, as detailed in court documents, she orchestrated a plan to liquidate the operation while diverting business activities to a new entity, TSA Transportation. Deposited under the guise of another business, A.F. Martin, that income not reported amounted to $3.6 million, resulting in an unpaid tax bill of $1.2 million from 2013 to 2018. The investigation by IRS Criminal Investigations (IRS-CI) exposed.
Amidst owning multiple interlinked companies, Martin’s maneuverings meant that TSA Transportation’s income was siphoned into the account of another Martin-owned business, while Martin Logistics’ physical assets, including trucks and trailers, were slid under the name of another of her companies, Martin Global. It was during a thorough IRS-CI investigation that agents tracked roughly $18 million in gross receipts from TSA Transportation, funneled through to the A.F. Martin business’s account…