WASHINGTON, April 20, 2024
From our Overseas Bureau
An Indian American businessman has been sentenced to 18 months’ probation and 200 hours of community service for bribery and tax evasion, the Department of Justice said.
Arman Amirshahi, aged 46 years, was part of one of the several sophisticated and long-term bribery schemes helmed by co-conspirators Anthony Merritt, of Capitol Heights, Maryland, and Vincent Slater, former manager in the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue (O.T.R.).
In furtherance of the schemes, four business owners—including Amirshahi, Charles Zhou, Andre De Moya, and Davoud Jafari – paid cash bribes, through Merritt as a middleman, to Slater, to evade their business taxes.
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