{"id":13410,"date":"2015-06-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/utah-jury-finds-accused-tax-evaders-guilty-on-lesser-charges\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:03:44","slug":"utah-jury-finds-accused-tax-evaders-guilty-on-lesser-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/utah-jury-finds-accused-tax-evaders-guilty-on-lesser-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah jury finds accused tax evaders guilty on lesser charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IRS problems aren&#039;t as complicated as they look once you see the structure. I&#039;m attorney Darrin Mish. I&#039;ve represented taxpayers before the IRS for three decades \u2014 in Florida, Colorado, Texas, and internationally. Here&#039;s the plain-English breakdown.<\/p>\n<p>www.sltrib.com \u2014 A federal court jury late Friday returned mixed verdicts for two Utah businessmen accused of conspiring to evade taxes by creating a host of shell companies using straw owners and what prosecutors labeled a &#8220;spaghetti bowl&#8221; of brokerage and bank accounts to conceal $34 million in stock sales.<\/p>\n<p>The jury returned a verdict Friday night of not guilty to the most serious charge of conspiracy to impede the workings of the IRS but found Lester H. Mower and Adrian A. Wilson guilty of three misdemeanor counts each of failure to file income tax returns.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/2619170-155\/utah-jury-finds-accused-tax-evaders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Utah jury finds accused tax evaders guilty on lesser charges<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out more <a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/category\/irs-news\/\">IRS News<\/a> stories by clicking that link.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_map_compat\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_address_compat show-address show-address-only\"><div class=\"rank-math-contact-section rank-math-contact-address\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_opening_hours_compat\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IRS problems aren&#039;t as complicated as they look once you see the structure. I&#039;m attorney Darrin Mish. I&#039;ve represented taxpayers before the IRS for three decades \u2014 in Florida, Colorado, Texas, and internationally. Here&#039;s the plain-English breakdown. www.sltrib.com \u2014 A federal court jury late Friday returned mixed verdicts for two Utah businessmen accused of conspiring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22577,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13410\/revisions\/22577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}