WHILE PLAINS – A Mount Vernon man who was a tax preparer and owner of a tax preparation business named GenGen, Inc. and GenGen Financial, Inc., in that city, was sentenced Tuesday in White Plains federal court to four years and three months in federal prison for obstructing the IRS and preparing false and fraudulent individual income tax returns for his clients.
Samuel Gentle, 59, was convicted in July following a one-week trial.
As established by evidence at trial, from 2010 through 2014, Gentle prepared on average 3,200 tax returns each year, which contained a pattern of false and fraudulent inflated deductions for business expenses and gifts to charity. Several of his clients testified that they had not provided Gentle with any information that he could have used to support the false or inflated deductions. He also failed to report on his own personal and business tax returns nearly half of the $1 million in receipts he received for his tax preparation services during those same four years.
Gentle’s crimes resulted in a loss to the IRS of more than $550,000.
In addition to his prison sentence, Gentle was sentenced to one year of supervised release and ordered to pay a $125,000 fine and to pay the IRS over $295,000 in back taxes.
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