For dodging more than $1.8 million in federal income tax and hindering the IRS’s efforts to collect the money he owed, a Utah man was sentenced to five years in prison today.
Derald Wilford Geddes, of Ogden, owned and operated Mount Ogden Dental PC, according to court documents and evidence presented at trial. Geddes took repeated actions to dodge federal income taxes and prevent the IRS’s efforts to collect his tax bill from about 1998 to 2014.
Geddes issued fake liens against his own properties, submitted bogus “bonds to discharge debt” to the IRS that he claimed were from the previous Treasury Secretary’s account, and filed false company income tax forms, among other things.
Geddes was found guilty of tax evasion, filing fraudulent tax returns, and obstructing the IRS by a federal jury in March 2022.
In addition to the jail sentence, Geddes was sentenced to 36 months of supervised release and $1.8 million in reparations to the United States by U.S. District Judge Tena Campbell.
The statement was made by Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and United States Attorney Trina A. Higgins for the District of Utah.
The case was probed by the IRS-Criminal Investigation.
The case was pursued by Trial Attorneys Ahmed Almudallal and Christopher Lin of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.