Gross
Friedman
Kaller
GOSHEN – Three men were arrested on Thursday following the execution of search warrants in Orange and Rockland counties.
David Gross, 45, and David Friedman, 42, both of Kiryas Joel, and Shloma Kaller, 44, of Suffern were all charged with felonies related to the evasion of taxes in connection with two concrete companies they owned.
Gross and Kaller were each charged with grand larceny, criminal tax fraud, and conspiracy alleging that between December 2009 and March 2012, the men conspired to steal $366,895 in state sales tax that had been collected from the customers of Concrete on Demand, Inc., a concrete company they owned.
Their company was also charged with grand larceny and criminal tax fraud.
Friedman, the sole owner of Copour, Inc., another concrete company, was charged with offering a false instrument for filing for having filed a false state withholding tax return, which under-reported the wages his company paid its employees.
A felony complaint alleges that Friedman had reported on a state withholding tax return that only $11,623 in wages were paid to Copour, Inc.’s employees in 2014, but on a corporate tax return for the same period, he reported paying $431,816 in wages for the same period.
All three men were arraigned in Monroe Town Court and posted bail. The matter was referred to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office from the state Department of Taxation and Finance.
Orange County DA investigators, members of the State Police, police officers from the Town of Blooming Grove, criminal investigators from the state Department of Taxation and Finance’s Criminal Investigation Division executed search warrants at three locations in Orange County and two in Rockland County.
