USA v. NOCITO

  1. September 20, 2023

    Ex-CEO Gets 13-Month Sentence For $16M Tax Fraud

    An ex-health care CEO who committed nearly $16 million in tax fraud partly by disguising his mansion's construction costs as business expenses was sentenced to 13 months in prison and ordered to pay full restitution by a Pennsylvania federal judge.

  2. September 07, 2023

    Ex-CEO Nailed For Fraud Not Too Frail For Prison, Judge Says

    A former health care management company CEO who committed nearly $16 million in tax fraud failed to convince a Pennsylvania federal judge that he's too old and sick to serve prison time, according to a tentative ruling filed Thursday.

  3. August 21, 2023

    Ex-CEO Asks For No Prison After Copping To $16M Tax Fraud

    A former health care management company CEO who agreed to pay $15.8 million in restitution after pleading guilty to tax fraud asked a Pennsylvania federal court to spare him a prison sentence, saying his poor health and family responsibilities should instead trigger home confinement or probation.

  4. November 21, 2022

    Former CEO Cops To Tax Fraud, Agrees To $15.8M Restitution

    A former health care management firm CEO agreed to pay $15.8 million in restitution after pleading guilty in Pennsylvania federal court to skirting millions in personal and corporate income taxes by claiming improper business write-offs and funneling money through his various business entities.

  5. September 30, 2021

    Judge Won't Toss Ex-Health Care CEO's Tax Fraud Charges

    A Pennsylvania federal judge declined to dismiss an indictment accusing a former health care management firm CEO of a multimillion-dollar tax fraud scheme, saying the government didn't violate the Fourth Amendment in receiving evidence concerning legal advice. 

  6. September 02, 2021

    Ex-CEO Wants Hearing On Feds' Info In Tax Fraud Case

    A former health care management CEO who says the U.S. government intruded into confidential information in bringing a multimillion-dollar tax fraud case against him asked a federal court to hold an evidentiary hearing on the extent of that intrusion.

  7. August 04, 2021

    Ex-CEO Calls Searches In Tax Fraud Probe Too Broad

    A Pennsylvania federal court should toss evidence the government obtained in a search of property owned by a former health care management firm CEO accused of a multimillion-dollar tax fraud scheme because the search was unconstitutional, the ex-CEO argued.

  8. July 29, 2020

    Firms Weren't 'Deprived' Of Lawyers' Letter In Tax Fraud Case

    A letter containing legal advice from a CFO-turned-IRS informant to a CEO later charged with tax fraud can't be returned to three of the CEO's other companies because they already had copies of it and weren't deprived of any protected attorney-client communication it contained, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Wednesday.

  9. July 27, 2020

    Ex-CEO's Firms Say IRS Got Privileged Docs In Fraud Case

    Three companies related to the indicted ex-CEO of Automated Health Systems claimed Monday in Pennsylvania federal court that an IRS informant gave federal prosecutors documents protected by attorney-client privilege that were used in a tax fraud case against him, and said they want those papers back.

  10. February 14, 2018

    Ex-CEO Hid Millions, Lived Large Off Pa. Co., Feds Charge

    Federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh announced on Wednesday that they'd slapped the ex-CEO of a health-care management firm with charges for allegedly orchestrating a multimillion-dollar tax fraud scheme aimed at hiding personal income from the Internal Revenue Service.