{"id":87312,"date":"2019-01-06T10:42:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T15:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sentencing.net\/?p=87312"},"modified":"2019-11-05T15:21:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T20:21:03","slug":"federal-criminal-restitution-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sentencing.net\/sentencing\/federal-criminal-restitution-orders","title":{"rendered":"Challenging Federal Criminal Restitution Orders for Tax-Related Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t
Convictions for crimes involving fraud, embezzlement or theft typically result in the defendants having to pay some amount of money in federal criminal restitution upon sentencing. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently affirmed the imposition of a federal criminal restitution order in United States v. Johnson<\/em><\/a> over the objections of a defendant who argued that the government did not disclose the amount it already collected at sentencing and was required to do so.<\/p>\n When a defendant commits a federal tax crime, he may be ordered to pay restitution in order to compensate the IRS for the amount of tax that it was rightfully owed had the defendant not defrauded the government of that money. Rather than paying that amount to the IRS directly, the defendant pays that amount to the district court. The payments are made over time and are monitored by the Department of Justice.<\/p>\nFederal Criminal Restitution Orders for Tax-Related Crimes<\/h2>\n