Worth Township Trust that helped federals obtain probation in the case of taxes

An administrator of a municipality that says that prosecutors helped with two federal investigations were sentenced to probation on Wednesday for not submitting their income tax statements for 2017 and 2018.

Richard J. Lewandowski, 65, He declared himself guilty in early 2021 and admitted that his minor crime cost the IRS $ 52,365 and the Illinois Income Department $ 10,350. However, he also agreed to help the federals in investigations not revealed with the hope of a sentence break.

In the end, the American magistrate judge Maria Valdez accompanied a recommendation of prosecutors, giving Lewandowski a year of probation. She also fined $ 4,000 and ordered her to pay $ 500 for the cost of prosecution.

Before being sentenced, Lewandowski told the judge “he could probably put a seminar on the paralyzing effects of procrastination.” He said he has learned to “get rid of disorder in my life” and how to “say ‘not’ occasionally.” But, he acknowledged, “he got me.”

The federals say that Lewandowski could not submit their tax statements “despite obtaining significant income through the politically connected printing company of their family, Breaker Press.” Although they say he paid the federal taxes that owed in 2021, they said last month that he still owed to the Illinois Revenue Department.

Patrick Boyle, Lewandowski’s defense lawyer, wrote in a separate judicial memorandum that Lewandowski planned to “quickly pay” the state, along with other sanctions to the IRS, “making both government agencies complete.”

Boyle also pointed out that Lewandowski said he did not file his tax statements because he was waiting for a form of a commercial partner and did not want to file them without him.

“This was literally a crime or sin of omission,” Boyle wrote.

Prosecutors told the judge that Lewandowski’s cooperation with them “has covered in the course of many months”, that he had been sincere and that the information he provided has been “useful, reliable and timely.” They said it related to two investigations, but did not offer additional details.

In the Court on Wednesday, Boyle told the judge that Lewandowski produced “bank boxes” of records that took “many, many hours” in assembling. Boyle also said that Lewandowski “underwent multiple professors with lawyers and agents who reviewed all these documents.”

Among those who wrote letters in support of Lewandowski was former American representative William Lipinski, who called Lewandowski a member of his community “Good will, generous and dedicated.”

“I realize that Rich is in front of you because the law did not follow,” Lipinski told the judge, “but I really think Rich is a good person, who would not intentionally compromise his business or any individual, and I can only hope that You can see that goodness in rich. “