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Watertown Man Faces Federal Charges of Making False Statements to Gain Citizenship

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The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston sent out the following statement:
A former owner of restaurants in Boston and Chelsea was charged yesterday in federal court in Boston with committing fraud to obtain U.S. citizenship. 
Burhan Ud Din, 49, of Watertown, was charged in a superseding indictment with one count of conspiracy, six counts of willful failure to collect and pay over tax, one count of making false statements under oath in a naturalization matter, and one count of procurement of naturalization contrary to law. Din was initially indicted for tax fraud in August 2017; the superseding indictment adds the naturalization allegations to the charges against him. Din’s co-conspirators, Hazrat Khan, 58, of Middletown, NY, and Khurshed Iqbal, 58, both Pakistani nationals, were separately charged in an April 2017 18-count superseding indictment with conspiracy and willful failure to pay over taxes. In November 2017, Khan pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 months in prison. Iqbal’s whereabouts are unknown.

Federal Court

Feds Charge Watertown Resident, Restaurant Manager with Tax Fraud

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A manager of two Boston-area restaurants who lives in Watertown was charged today in federal court in Boston with tax fraud, the office of Acting United States Attorney William D. Weinreb District of Massachusetts announced. The US Attorney’s office sent out the following release:

Burhan Ud Din, 48, of Watertown, was indicted on one count of conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service and 12 counts of failing to withhold and pay employee taxes to the IRS. Two of Din’s co-conspirators, Hazrat Khan, 57, of Middletown, NY, and Khurshed Iqbal, 57, both Pakistani nationals, were charged in an April 2017 18-count superseding indictment with conspiracy and willful failure to pay over taxes. Khan previously pleaded guilty and will be sentenced later this year. Iqbal’s whereabouts are unknown.

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Watertown Man Gets 2 Years in Federal Prison for Insider Trading

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A Boston-area real estate developer was sentenced to two years in federal prison and ordered to pay a $1 million fine after he was convicted earlier this year of engaging in insider trading for buying – and later selling – shares of Wainwright Bank & Trust Company (“Wainwright”) based on a tip that Wainwright would be acquired.  Prior to the acquisition, shares of Wainwright traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market. Robert H. Bray, 78, of Watertown, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge William G. Young. In January, Bray, the owner of R&B Construction, a construction and real estate development company, was convicted of one count of securities fraud following a four-day trial. In June 2010, Bray was tipped by a friend who was an executive at Boston-based Eastern Bank Corp. that Wainwright would be acquired.

Federal Court

Watertown Business Owner Pleads Guilty to Federal Tax Evasion

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A Watertown business owner pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a scheme to evade taxes and workers’ compensation insurance premiums by paying employees under-the-table for their work, announced United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz’s office. 

Richard Moxley, 67, pleaded guilty one count of tax evasion and one count of mail fraud. U.S. District Court Senior Judge Mark L. Wolf scheduled sentencing for August 17, 2016. Moxley owned and operated Sparkling Windows, a window and gutter cleaning company based in Watertown. From 2008 to 2012, Moxley devised and executed a scheme to defraud the Internal Revenue Service and the insurance company providing workers’ compensation insurance for Sparkling’s employees, by filing false tax returns and paying workers “under the table.” To do this, Moxley arranged to bring client checks to a check casher, and paid undocumented workers weekly wages in cash. By doing so, he concealed a substantial portion of the company’s business revenues and payroll, and filed false tax returns, evading a significant portion of federal taxes, and fraudulently reducing the premiums for workers’ compensation insurance owed in connection with the business.