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Ronald Ray Wilson, A former member of the Texas House of Representatives, faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion.
Several years after leaving office, two US Tax Court decisions found that he owed back taxes to the IRS. However, he refused to pay the taxes due and went to great lengths to hide his income.
As the founding partner of a law firm, he began depositing his monthly salary into the firm’s trust account, which is only supposed to hold client funds.
To avoid further scrutiny, he switched his House of Representatives pension checks from direct deposit to physical checks, and then deposited the checks into a trust account he controlled. He would then convert the money into cashier’s checks.
Wilson caused a tax loss to the IRS in the amount of $794,632. He faces up to five years in prison.
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