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Accountant Gets 3 years in the Slammer for Failing to Pay Over $1 Million in Payroll Taxes  

The accountant for a company that makes luxury limousines and buses, Carrie Leigh Long, was sentenced for embezzling $362,000 and failing to pay over more than one million dollars in payroll and personal taxes.  

Long stole from the company 198 times between 2016 and 2019. She used a stock of pre-signed checks to pay herself unauthorized amounts and forged checks made out to herself. She did not claim any of the stolen money on her tax returns, causing the IRS a loss of $65,039.  

Beginning in 2019, Long stopped paying payroll taxes, both the ones owed by her employer and the ones collected from employee salaries. She failed to pay $902,226 in payroll taxes, which gave her a bigger pool of money to steal from.  

Long was on probation while pursuing this scheme, for embezzling $88,000 from a client of her previous employer. In that case her mother paid the victim back the $88,000. Long used some of the newly embezzled funds to pay her mother back.  

She was sentenced to three years and five months in prison without parole and ordered to pay $362,175 to her employer and $1,071,802 to the IRS. The court also ordered Long to forfeit the government $362,175. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]