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The Family Business Caught Between Tax Evasion and PPP Fraud
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Subscribe01 JUN 2026 / ACCOUNTING & TAXES
William Brent Stephens and Zackary Sulpizi, a father-and-son team running a landscaping business in South Jersey, have pleaded guilty to a years-long scheme involving unreported income, payroll tax fraud, and fraudulent pandemic-era relief funding. Disgruntled customer complaints about unfulfilled projects set off an investigation that uncovered the abuse, leading to restitution owed in the hundreds of thousands, and pending prison sentences for both men.
What starts as a few angry customer reviews rarely ends with federal criminal charges. Yet that's exactly what happened in South Jersey, where complaints about unfinished landscaping projects ultimately exposed something much bigger than missed deadlines...
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