Chiropractic Couple Paul and Barbara Basile Sentenced for Tax Evasion

by: DrTirpak posted: July 11, 2012

Chiropractors Paul and Barbara Basile had a private practice in west Allentown PA for 30 years, now each will be spending more than 5 years in federal prison. Drs. Basile together established Lehigh Valley Non-Surgical in 1997, having previously run the Basile Health Clinic.

The Basiles problems started with the IRS almost 15 years ago when Paul Basile DC , 1980 graduate of Sherman College of Chiropractic, decided the Internal Revenue Service didn't have authority to collect taxes from him and his wife. From 1995 to 2001, according to prosecutors, the Basiles did not pay their taxes and owed over a million dollars to the IRS.

Then between 2002 and 2005 Dr Paul Basile and Dr. Barbara Basile removed themselves from Lehigh Valley Non-Surgical’s payroll and paid themselves with checks weekly from LVNS or other companies they controlled. Totaling another $150,000 in unpaid taxes.

Federal Prosecutors also claimed the couple used a company they created in 1997 in Colorado, Nyland Inc, to conceal income Paul Basile DC earned as a coach with Breakthrough Coaching LLC, as well as for consulting services he provided to Corporate Health of America, LLC.

Other charges in the case resulted from bogus checks totaling $1,351,380 that Dr. Paul Basile sent the IRS for payment on a closed bank. Around the same time he submitted a series of fictitious documents titled, "Prepaid Foreign Bills of Exchange” as payment of his and his wife’s income tax liabilities.

A U.S. District Court in December convicted Paul Basile, 55, of one count of conspiracy to defraud the government, five counts of tax evasion and two counts of filing false income tax returns. This week Judge Paul S Diamond sentenced Paul Basile to 6 years and 6 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release. Barbara Basile, also 55, was convicted of one count of conspiracy to defraud the government, five counts of tax evasion and two counts of filing false income tax returns. She was sentenced to five years and three months in prison, also followed by three years of supervised release.

 Since being held in prison Dr. Barbara Basile's Attorney stated that she has worked with other inmates teaching GED courses.

Copy of the Federal Indictment

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