Date: June 26, 2024 Contact: newsroom@ci.irs.gov Rochester, NY — U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that a federal jury convicted Tony Kirik, a/k/a Anatoliy Kirik of Rochester, NY, of making false statements to the Federal Motor Commission Safety Administration (FMCSA), U.S. Department of Transportation, and conspiring to do the same. The charges carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Richard A. Resnick and Melissa M. Marangola who handled the prosecution of the case, stated that Kirik operated a multiple million-dollar trucking business called Dallas Logistics. When applying to the FMCSA for authority to operate as an interstate carrier, Kirik submitted false documents regarding the safety rating of his trucking business. Further, when undergoing compliance reviews and safety audits by the FMSCA. Kirik provided false statements and information regarding the many safety violations incurred by his business. To trick the FMSCA regarding the safety of this trucking business, Kirik started new companies using various family members’ names and an employee’s name to make it appear that these new companies were independent and not affiliated with the prior business that incurred the negative safety ratings, when in fact, the new company was merely an extension of the prior company. At trial, it was shown that Kirik’s actions jeopardized the safety of the nation’s highways and roadways from unsafe tractor trailers. The verdict is the result of an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS CI), under the direction of Thomas Fattorusso, Special Agent-in-Charge, New York Field Office and Special Agents of the Department of Transportation, Office of Inspector General, under the direction of Special Agent-in-Charge Christopher Scharf, Northeast Region. Sentencing is scheduled for October 28, 2024, before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa who presided over the trial. CI is the criminal investigative arm of the IRS, responsible for conducting financial crime investigations, including tax fraud, narcotics trafficking, money-laundering, public corruption, healthcare fraud, identity theft and more. CI special agents are the only federal law enforcement agents with investigative jurisdiction over violations of the Internal Revenue Code, obtaining a more than a 90 percent federal conviction rate. The agency has 20 field offices located across the U.S. and 12 attaché posts abroad.
