Brown Indictment

19 June 2000
Brown Indictment

ROBERT S. MUELLER, III (CSRN 59775)
United States Attorney

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
SAN JOSE DIVISION

VIOLATION: 26 U.S.C. § 7201--

Tax Evasion

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff

V.

DAVID BROWN,
Defendant.

SAN JOSE VENUE

INFORMATION

The United States Attorney charges:

COUNT 1: (26 U.S.C. § 720l)

During calendar year 1997, in the Northern District of California, County of Santa Clara, and elsewhere, the defendant DAVID BROWN, did willfully attempt to evade and defeat the payment of income tax owed to the United States by failing to report income tax for 1997 on or before April 16, 1998; that is, instructing a business accountant that his compensation should not be deducted from the business payroll account, but rather that he should be paid as a consultant, using business income to purchase a family home, title of which was placed in another person's name, all resulting in the failure to report approximately $331,190.00 of personal income for which $102,933 of tax was owing and due to the United States.

All in violation of Title 26 United States Code Section 7201.

ROBERT S. MUELLER, III
United States Attorney

ELIZABETH DE LA VEGA
Chief, San Jose Branch

June 13, 2000

Approved as to form:
AUSA Carlos Singh