Jury convicts business owner Robert Kahre of tax fraud

Friday, Aug. 14, 2009 | 5:54 p.m.

A federal jury found Las Vegas businessman Robert Kahre and three others guilty Friday of several felony tax crimes, including conspiracy to defraud the IRS, tax evasion and hiding assests.

Robert D. Kahre and his sister, Lori A. Kahre, each were convicted of intentionally and knowingly conspiring to defraud the federal government, U.S. Attorney Greg Brower of Nevada said.

Robert Kahre was also convicted of 49 counts of failure to collect or pay employment taxes, two counts of attempting to interfere with administration of IRS laws, four counts of tax evasion and one count of wire fraud.

Lori Kahre was also convicted of two counts of attempting to interfere with administration of IRS laws, one count of making a false statement to a bank and seven counts of tax evasion.

Robert Kahre faces up to 296 years in prison and fines of up to $14 million, Brower said. Lore Kahre faces up to 71 years in prison and fines of up to $2.75 million.

Robert Kahre's business consultant, Alexander C. Loglia, was convicted of one count of filing a false income tax return and 10 counts of tax evasion. He faces up to 53 years in prison and fines of up to $2.75 million.

Robert Kahre's girlfriend, Danille Cline, was convicted of one count of attempting to interfere with administering IRS laws and one count of wire fraud. She faces up to 23 years in prison and fines of up to $500,000.

Sentencing for all defendants is scheduled for 9 a.m. Nov. 17. The defendants have been released on personal recognizance bonds before the sentencing.

Robert Kahre and his associates were indicted in April 2005.

The trial lasted three months and the jury took two days to deliberate.

The indictments alleged that from 1998 through 2003 Kahre paid his employees and employees of other businesses with whom he contracted in gold, silver or cash from an office at 6270 Kimberly Ave.

No federal taxes were withheld from the paychecks and wages were not reported to the IRS, court records said.

Kahre also was accused of trying to evade income tax he owed for the years 1992 and 1993 in the amount of $1,000,453 and he attempted to conceal income from 1996 through 2005 by using straw buyers to purchase property in the names of his mother, girlfriend and stepfather.

Discussion: 8 comments so far…

Comments are moderated by Las Vegas Sun editors. Our goal is not to limit the discussion, but rather to elevate it. Comments should be relevant and contain no abusive language. Comments that are off-topic, vulgar, profane or include personal attacks will be removed. Full comments policy.

By Man_o_Steel

Aug. 14, 2009

10:45 p.m.

Suggest removal

Justice. Now go after some of his "gold & silver payroll system customers....
If you want to live in the USA, you have to ante up.
By Man_o_Steel

Aug. 14, 2009

10:45 p.m.

Suggest removal

Justice. Now go after some of his "gold & silver payroll system" customers....
If you want to live in the USA, you have to ante up.
By firstr8felon

Aug. 15, 2009

4:10 a.m.

Suggest removal

its a shame that some people are so busy knowing everything that they dont see whats really going on!!! you probably still believe superman is real too!!! dont you man of STEAL?!?!
By BobbyG

Aug. 15, 2009

10:20 a.m.

Suggest removal

"Your Honor," Kahre said when he stood to answer, "This last seventeen years of my life has been to get my issues" aired about taxation and the importance of a gold standard to back U.S. currency.
______

Whata dope. Yeah, Cry me a friggin' tsunami. Right. You've been altruistically workin' SO hard on behalf of illegally taxed Americans all these years, and this is the thanks you get.

Have fun in the joint.
By okra

Aug. 15, 2009

12:54 p.m.

Suggest removal

I'm sure he'll love the big house. They got a much more patriotic barter system on the inside, ya know, cigs for cookies, cookies for booty and such. Just like the founders intended.
By Chimeral

Aug. 17, 2009

11:43 p.m.

Suggest removal

I have to say I am appalled at the comments here so far. That's what I get for being an old man, I guess. It would appear that most of you don't realize this is a further entrenchment of the dual standard in our monetary system.

It means that a gold American Eagle coin is only worth its $50 legal-tender value when used at a store, but used to pay an employee, the same item becomes a nice, taxable $1,000. Either the government needs to change the legal-tender value of the coins to match market value, or they need to abide by the value they assigned the coin in the first place. (For internal accounting, our government only counts an ounce of its gold as being worth $42.)

Incidentally, Kahre was already tried and acquitted of these charges in 2007. Does double indemnity not apply? Being acquitted in 2007 (on every one of something like 160 counts), does that not give him full reason to believe that he had been proven right, and then had legal sanction to continue paying in coins?
By usafvette

Nov. 21, 2009

5:02 p.m.

Suggest removal

Money must be backed by something, or it is worth nothing. When the dollar was established...it took $20 to buy one ounce of gold...today it takes approx. $1000 to buy one ounce of gold. Given this difference in value today...each dollar in your pocket is worth about 2 cents! If the average per capita income is $50,000...your money is actually only worth about $1000 in constitutional value. Pretty sad if you ask me...even sadder that they convicted this guy for NOTHING!
By Thunderbolt

Dec. 3, 2009

11:11 a.m.

Suggest removal

Here is an article that reflects my own views:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w...