Bronx DA: Bronx Business Owner Indicted for Failing To Report Over $1 Million in Income To Avoid Paying Taxes

BRONX BUSINESS OWNER INDICTED FOR FAILING TO REPORT OVER $1 MILLION IN INCOME TO AVOID PAYING TAXES

Defendant Allegedly Avoided $150,000 in Tax Payments for His Auto Repair Business

Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx man has been indicted for filing a fraudulent tax return and for failing to report over $1 million in income from his auto repair business.

District Attorney Clark said, “The defendant allegedly falsified information to deliberately avoid paying taxes on more than $1 million dollars in income. In the Bronx, we pride ourselves on our thriving small businesses who not only serve the community but operate fairly within the boundary of the law. He and his company are now facing multiple charges.”

District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Josue Aguilar Dubon, AKA Saady Dubon, AKA Alejandro Ortiz, 31, of  Longfellow Avenue, was arraigned October 24, 2022 on one count of second-degree Forgery, one count of second-degree Falsifying Business Records, one count of first-degree Falsifying Business Records, one count of second-degree Offering a False Instrument for Filing, and one count of first-degree Offering a False Instrument for Filing before Bronx Supreme Court Justice George Villegas. He is due back in court on December 14, 2022. He and his company, Epic Auto Repair Corporation, were indicted on second-degree Tax Fraud, two counts of third-degree Tax Fraud, and two counts of fourth-degree Tax Fraud.

According to the investigation, Aguilar operated Epic Auto Repair, located at 1179 Grinnell Place, and did not report his 2018 income of $865,200.55, resulting in over $50,000 in unpaid taxes. The defendant also failed to file tax returns in 2019 and did not report his $148,985.10 income, resulting in more than $10,000 in unpaid taxes. 

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Mariah Genis of the Economic Crimes Bureau, under the supervision of John Oxenreiter, Supervisor of the Economic Crimes Bureau, Michelle Milanes, Deputy Chief of the Economic Crimes Bureau, Herman Wun, Chief of the Economic Crimes Bureau, and under the overall supervision of Denise Kodjo, Deputy Chief of the Investigations Division, and Wanda Perez-Maldonado, Chief of the Investigations Division.

District Attorney Clark thanked Senior Investigative Assistant District Attorney Sheryl Konigsberg of the Economic Crimes Bureau, Senior Investigative Assistant District Attorney Alan Alvarez of the Economic Crimes Bureau, Principal Forensic Investigator James Antonino, BXDA Senior Detective Investigator Brendan Sullivan, BXDA Senior Detective Investigator Stephen Polizzi, and Lieutenant Brian O’Loughlin for their assistance in the case.

District Attorney Clark thanked the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance for their assistance in the investigation.