New Jersey man convicted in West Coxsackie crime

West Coxsackie, NY (News10) – A Garfield man, in New Jersey, was sentenced to three years of probation and six months of home detention for conspiracy in order to commit electronic fraud and fraud to honest services for tax evasion. Juller Perez Salcedo, 45, pleaded guilty May 17.

According to the Ministry of Justice (DOJ), as part of his guilt, Perez Salcedo said he was a co -owner of a trucking company in New Jersey who brought products as a third party entrepreneur for a bedding company with a distribution center in West Coxsackie. . As part of this project, Perez Salcedo paid bribes to the director of transport company transport and used in exchange the trucks and drivers of the bedding company to transport goods from West Coxsackie at its truck fleet in Clifton, New Jersey.

The DOJ claims Perez Salcedo did this to avoid certain transportation costs. Perez Salcedo then fraudulently billed and received his salary from the bedding company. As part of this scheme, Perez Salcedo caused $422,170.86 in losses to the bedding company.

The DOJ also alleges that Perez Salcedo evaded taxes from January 2014 to April 2018 by cashing gross receipts checks in the name of his trucking company. In doing so, he provided false and incomplete information to tax preparers, validated cashed checks, and filed false federal income tax returns. He evaded a total of $477,090 in taxes.

Perez Salcedo is ordered to pay $ 422,170.86 of compensation to the bedding company and $ 477,090 at the IRS. In addition, he ordered the confiscation of a pecuniary judgment totaling more than $ 422,170.86 in products from fraud.