A former Tennessee business owner was sentenced today to 3 years’ probation and ordered to pay $1,048,840 in restitution to the United States for willfully failing to pay over employment taxes to the IRS on behalf of the company she owned and operated. According to court documents and statements made in court, Mari Alexander, 52, was the sole owner and president of a mental-health counseling center with multiple locations throughout Tennessee. Alexander controlled the counseling center’s financial affairs and was responsible for withholding Social Security, Medicare and federal income taxes from the wages of employees and paying those funds
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