Date: December 15, 2023 Contact: newsroom@ci.irs.gov SCRANTON — The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Robert Luksh, owner of Luksh Electric, located in Nanticoke, PA, pleaded guilty on December 13, 2023, before United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to criminal tax evasion. According to United States Attorney Gerard M. Karam, the criminal information to which Luksh pleaded guilty alleges that during 2019 and 2020, Luksh operated his business in cash in order to evade payment to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of business-related taxes that he owed from previous tax years. Luksh acknowledged that the monetary loss attributable to his conduct was between $100,000.00 and $250,000.00, and he agreed to make restitution to the IRS in the amount of $237,146.98. These charges stem from an investigation by IRS Criminal Investigation (CI). Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffery St John is prosecuting the case. The maximum penalty under federal law for this offense is five years of imprisonment, a term of supervised release following imprisonment, and a fine. A sentence following a finding of guilt is imposed by the Judge after consideration of the applicable federal sentencing statutes and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. 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.
