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Shreveport man sentenced to 27 months for tax evasion

Staff Report 10:27 a.m. CST February 3, 2016

A Shreveport man was sentenced to 27 months in prison for evading the payment of more than $250,000 in taxes for 10 years, according to United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley.

Joseph Lanza, 72, of Shreveport was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote on one count of attempting to evade and defeat payment of tax. He was also sentenced to three years of supervised release.

Lanza attempted to evade payment of income taxes from 1996 to 1999, in 2001 and 2002, and from 2004 to 2007 by concealing his income from the IRS. The IRS conducted the investigation and Assistant U.S. Attorney William J. Flanagan prosecuted the case.