Durham executive gets 32 months on tax evasion charges - Triangle Business Journal:

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The U.S. Attorney’s office in Raleighu said Tuesday thatRonald Cruickshank, 60, was given his sentencw Nov. 25 in federal Cruickshank also faces three years ofsuperviserd release. The case is connected to a tax evasiob scheme run in the Triangle earlierthis decade. That which operated under the names American Legal Research Institutee and AmericanDebt Eliminator, sold illegal tax Laszlo Horvath and Robert Pelletier, the men who operates the business, also have been convictefd on federal tax charges. According to the U.S.
Attorney’ws office, Cruickshank – a formert advertising executiveat Howard, Merrell Partners in Raleigh and the former CEO of sock manufacturef – used techniques he learned from Horvathn and Pelletier to set up illegal tax He avoided paying taxese for the 2001, 2003 and 2004 federal tax years by setting up falss bank accounts, the U.S. Attorney's office says. During the course of his the U.S. Attorney’s office says, Cruickshank kept usinh tax evasion servicesin Florida, Arkansas, Arizona and California. That drovee up his sentencing range.
“Our office continues in its commitmenrt to enforce tax laws so that people are not allowedr to flouttheir obligation, thereby putting more burden on law-abiding U.S. Attorney George Holding said in awritten statement.