Date: March 19, 2021 Contact: newsroom@ci.irs.gov Acting United States Attorney Jan W. Sharp announced the federal grand jury for the District of Nebraska returned unsealed Indictments charging Joseph T. Pearce and Janis Strautkalns. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. Joseph T. Pearce, II of Plainview, Nebraska, is charged in a three-count Indictment. Count I charges Pearce with filing a false tax return on or about April 13, 2015. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is three years' imprisonment, a $100,000 fine, a one-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Count II charges the defendant with filing a false tax return on or about April 11, 2016. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is three years' imprisonment, a $100,000 fine, a one-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Count III charges the defendant with filing a false tax return on or about April 20, 2017. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 3 years' imprisonment, a $100,000 fine, a one-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Janis Strautkalns of Lincoln, Nebraska, is charged in a fourteen-count Indictment. Counts I through X charge Strautkalns with failure to pay over withholding & FICA taxes on or about September 30, 2016 and continuing through December 31, 2018. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is five years' imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment each count. Counts XI through XIV charge the defendant with failure to file tax return on or about 2015 through 2018. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is one year' imprisonment, a $100,000 fine, a one-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
