Darryl De Sousa started cheating on his federal and state income taxes 20 years ago.
On or about June 10, 1999, Baltimore’s future police commissioner falsely claimed nine allowances on his federal and state Employee Withholding Allowance Certificates (“W-4’s”), he admitted yesterday in U.S. District Court.
As a result of these allowances, De Sousa was able to greatly reduce the taxes taken out of his police paycheck, setting the stage for his later failure, while a rising star at the BPD, to file any tax returns.
On Tuesday, the 54-year-old pleaded guilty to three counts of failure to file individual federal tax returns, a crime punishable by up to three years in prison and $300,000 in fines.
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