Wisconsin: Madison woman gets year in prison for $3M in tax evasion skimming video gambling machine money

Wisconsin: Madison woman gets year in prison for $3M in tax evasion skimming video gambling machine money

Article brief provided by Wisconsin State Journal
  • Jeff Richgels, Wisconsin State Journal
February 23, 2021 1:30 AM
  • Jeff Richgels, Wisconsin State Journal

A Madison woman was sentenced Friday to a year and a day in federal prison for avoiding paying more than $3 million in taxes on money skimmed from the proceeds of video gambling machines in bars.

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Mary Lavine, 65, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service and to filing a false 2018 corporate income tax return for Bullseye Inc., a business she co-owned, Scott Blader, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, said in a statement.

U.S. District Judge James Peterson also fined Lavine $75,000, ordered her to serve two years of supervised release after her prison term and ordered her to pay restitution of $834,770 to the IRS and $1,927,853 to the Wisconsin Department of Revenue.