Former CFO Nicky Osborne of shuttered Bison Global Logistics was sentenced to nearly four years in prison and ordered to pay back nearly $8 million in fraud and tax evasion scheme.
Michael Chaves, the former owner of a vehicle-transport carrier, gets 30 months in prison for forging DOT documents and failing to maintain driver certifications.
The president of Dan-Gulf Shipping said the stolen funds were not a major factor in shuttering the company.
Former Arrow Trucking CEO Doug Pielsticker was released three years early because of a COVID-19 outbreak at his Texas prison.
Lev Aslan Dermen was convicted on multiple charges involving business connections to brothers Jacob and Isaiah Kingston, who were convicted in 2018 for their role in a massive biodiesel tax scheme.
This is the second time a Pennsylvania trucking company owner has been convicted of tax crimes.
Federal judge sentenced New Jersey trucking company owner to two years in prison for orchestrating an elaborate $2.3 million tax evasion scheme.
Donald Tankersley, 76, former chief executive officer of White Dairy Ice Cream and Tankersley Food Service in Van Buren, Arkansas, pleaded guilty to two counts of tax fraud in federal court on Sept. 20.
