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Houston CPA Sentenced to Prison Over $1.6M Payroll Tax Failure
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Subscribe30 APR 2026 / ACCOUNTING & TAXES
Harry Lamar Curtis III, a former Certified Public Accountant (CPA) based in Houston, has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for failing to remit over $1.6 million in payroll taxes. Curtis, who ran a cybersecurity firm, had withheld the taxes from employee wages but did not send the money to the IRS, turning a repeated paperwork issue into criminal exposure.
It starts the way a lot of tax problems do, quietly, almost invisibly. A missed filing here, a delayed payment there. Then one day, it’s not a paperwork issue anymore, it’s a federal case. In Houston, that slow burn turned into a hard stop for a former CP...
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