Stratford Man Gets Six Months for Tax Evasion

A 55-year-old Stratford man was sentenced Tuesday to six months in prison followed by six months home confinement with electronic monitoring for cheating the government out of $83,000.

Lenworth Haynes operated his own tax preparation business in addition to a job as a cook at a Trumbull nursing home.

From 2006 to 2008, the Stratford man reported taxable income from his tax preparation business of negative $3,761 when he should have reported total taxable income of $255,071.38.

The result, for the government, was a loss of $82,704.

Haynes, who pled guilty to one count of tax evasion on April 17, has been ordered to pay back taxes, plus interest and penalties.

This report was based on a press release from the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut.