August 9, 2016

A priest for the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose pleaded guilty to four counts of tax evasion, announced the Justice Department’s Tax Division. Father Hien Minh Nguyen, 56, admitted that over a period of four years, he stole money his parishioners donated to the Diocese and willfully evaded paying income taxes on the money he misappropriated each year from 2008 through 2011. He admitted that he deposited this money into his personal bank account, did not disclose this income to his return preparer, did not keep records of the donations he stole, and filed false income tax returns which did not report this money. DOJ

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