Brian Whitfield sent to slammer for 20 years and fined millions in fraud case

The evidence at trial also proved that Whitfield vastly underreported wages and taxes on Sommet’s quarterly employer tax return that he personally prepared and filed. Across six quarters from 2008—2010, Sommet paid more than $83 million in wages to its employees and the employees of its clients, but Whitfield reported less than $4 million in wages to the IRS, resulting in an underpayment of more than $20 million in taxes.