Date: Oct. 8, 2024 Contact: newsroom@ci.irs.gov Baltimore, MD — On Oct. 2, 2024, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Jeannette Gomez of Perry Hall, Maryland, and Edgar Gomez of Perry Hall, Maryland, with failure to report and pay over employment taxes accrued pursuant to their interest in SND Services, LLC and related entities. The indictment was announced by Erek L. Barron, U.S. for the District of Maryland and Special Agent Robert Kuczarski of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, Landover Field Office. As detailed in the indictment, the defendants owned and operated several companies engaged in providing temporary staffing services. These companies included SND Services, LLC and SND Services Inc. Under the direction of Jeannette Gomez, these entities issued Forms W-2 to employees and withheld federal income taxes and Social Security and Medicare (“FICA”) taxes from their wages but failed to pay over the total withheld to the IRS. It is estimated that the defendants failed to pay over at least $10,476,696 in employment taxes. As further alleged in the indictment, the defendants diverted the funds withheld in trust for their personal use, including for the purchase of residences costing more than $1 million dollars and luxury vehicles costing in excess of $200,000. If convicted, the defendants face a maximum sentence of 5 years in federal prison. Actual sentences for federal crimes are typically less than the maximum penalties. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after taking into account the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors. An indictment is not a finding of guilt. An individual charged by indictment is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty at some later criminal proceedings. U.S. Attorney Barron commended Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) for their work in the investigation. Mr. Barron thanked Assistant U.S. Attorney Adeyemi Adenrele and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Melinda Dunmire, who are prosecuting the federal case. IRS-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. IRS-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.
