A former New Orleans lawyer who went to federal prison for stealing millions from his white shoe firm faces a new round of federal charges for falsifying taxes.
The former gambling law specialist, James Perdigao, was charged Monday with two counts of filing false tax returns, court records show. The counts were delivered via bill of information.
Prosecutors accuse Perdigao of failing to list $79,000 in income on a 2022 individual tax return. As owner of a firm called DC Trucking and Hauling, he’s also accused of filing a 2023 corporate income tax return that listed $235,000 in false deductions, prosecutors said…