Head of Architectural Firm Once Used by School District Pleads Guilty
Pravin H. Patel's admitted to filing bad tax returns; firm was contracted by district from 1993 through 2011
The owner of a Toms River architectural firm that once served the township school district and Ocean County College admitted to filling fraudulent tax returns for his business, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced Tuesday. Pravin H. Patel, 67, of Toms River, entered a guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler to charges that he falsely passed off hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal expenses as business deductions. The charge is punishable by a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000, according to Fishman. Patel is founder and president of Pravin H. Patel Associates, the firm that once served as the Toms River Regional School’s engineer, architect and planner. District officials …
dindak
11:13 pm on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Hang him if you found him corrupt with Ritacco. Honesty does not mean anything, you got to pay the price just for association. He took the blame, but did he file his own returns or ask his accountant to cook books for him. more ›