Date: March 13, 2024 Contact: newsroom@ci.irs.gov Camden, NJ — A Camden County, New Jersey, businessman admitted filing false tax returns that failed to report all of his income, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today. Anthony Cardellia of Blackwood, New Jersey, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Christine P. O’Hearn in Camden federal court on March 12, 2024, to an information charging him with one count of making and subscribing a false income tax return. According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court: Barreras owned, operated, and worked at home improvement contractors in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Cardellia admitted that during 2016 and 2017, he used a commercial check casher to negotiate over $1.9 million of revenue checks for the home improvement businesses at which he worked. Cardellia kept about $190,000 of the cash proceeds, which he failed to report as income on his individual income tax returns. Cardellia admitted that he caused a tax loss of more than $45,000. The count of making and subscribing a false tax return carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. Sentencing is scheduled for July 18, 2024. U.S. Attorney Sellinger credited special agents of IRS Criminal Investigation (CI), under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Tammy Tomlins, with the investigation leading to the guilty plea. The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Bender of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Camden. 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.
