Woodbridge Attorney to Serve Time for Tax Evasion

A Woodbridge attorney has been sentenced to six months in prison followed by one year of supervised release after failing to pay nearly $400,000 in federal income taxes, according to the U.S. attorney's office.

Jerry Gruenbaum, 59, declined to report $1.3 million in taxable income between 2005 and 2010, federal prosecutors said. He pleaded guilty to two counts of filing a false federal tax return in July 2014

From 2005 to 2007, he deliberately filed tax returns that underestimated his income and didn't file tax returns at all from 2009 to 2010, according to the U.S. attorney's office.

Federal prosecutors said Gruenbaum also tried to deceive the IRS by calculating gross receipt figures for just one of several corporate bank accounts, some of which he used to pay personal expenses.

Gruenbaum is required to pay $877,646 in back taxes, penalties and interest, according to the U.S. attorney's office.

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