Kansas business owner sentenced for spending employees’ tax withholdings on cars, mansion, gambling

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – A Kansas business owner has been sentenced to prison for employment tax crimes.

48-year-old Ephantus Mwangi, a Kenyan national and Missouri resident, was sentenced Oct. 5 to 51 months in prison for failing to pay employment taxes to the IRS on behalf of the companies he owned and operated, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas said.

Mwangi owned and operated True Payment Solutions, Inc., a Kansas business that sold credit-card processing services and card readers to merchants. He also owned True POS Solutions, Inc., a separate business that offered similar services…

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