Ex-McGuireWoods Partner Gets Home Detention for Falsifying IRS Doc to Avoid Levy for Unpaid Tax

Ex-McGuireWoods Partner Gets Home Detention for Falsifying IRS Doc to Avoid Levy for Unpaid Tax

A former partner of McGuireWoods has been given home confinement and community service for interfering with Internal Revenue Service efforts to collect more than $110,000 she owed in unpaid income tax for 2006 to 2008. When the IRS attempted to levy on partnership payments to Michelle Renee Walker, she provided the law firm’s general counsel with a falsified IRS form that purported to lift the levy, reports the Metropolitan News-Enterprise. Now 42, she was sentenced in federal court in Los Agneles to six months of home detention and is required to perform 20 hours of community service monthly until she finds a job. The government had sought…

Find what colleges and schools offer ABA Approved Paralegal Programs in the United States. Earn your paralegal certification from ABA Approved Paralegal College!