On Jan. 18, a federal judge sentenced Jeffrey Zirkle to six months in prison and ordered him to pay nearly $126,000 in restitution to the government for a tax crime. | Chodyra Mike/Shutterstock[/caption]
After serving two years behind bars, former Total Reclaim owner Jeffrey Zirkle has been sentenced to another six months. This time, he pleaded guilty to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the company and dodging taxes.
A federal court in April 2019 sentenced Total Reclaim owners and co-CEOs Zirkle and Craig Lorch each to two years and four months in prison. The men had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for selling over 8 million pounds of LCD devices for export to Hong Kong while representing to Total Reclaim's clients that the electronics would be recycled responsibly domestically.
The court also ordered the men to pay over $946,000 in restitution, which they did, according to records filed by Zirkle's attorney. About $911,000 of the restitution was paid to the Washington Materials Management and Financing Authority, the stewardship group that meets OEMs' recycling obligations under the state's extended producer responsibility law.
According to court documents and the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, Zirkle, 58, was in custody in Oregon from July 23, 2019 to July 16, 2021, or nearly two years.
Then, in October 2021, the U.S. Attorney's Office charged Zirkle with one count of making and subscribing a false tax return. Prosecutors claimed that, between 2007 and 2019, Zirkle used Total Reclaim credit cards to buy himself $480,000 worth of goods, including a motorcycle, home appliances, a luxury watch, an irrigation system and more, and then he failed to disclose the transaction on his income tax returns (prosecutors noted that he bought at least one of the personal items with a company credit card while he was on pre-trial supervision in the exports fraud case).
On Jan. 18, a federal judge sentenced Zirkle to another six months in prison and ordered him to pay nearly $126,000 in restitution to the government, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office. He reached a deal with Kent, Wash.-based Total Reclaim to repay expenses.
[caption id="attachment_12409" align="aligncenter" width="980"] On Jan. 18, a federal judge sentenced Jeffrey Zirkle to six months in prison and ordered him to pay nearly $126,000 in restitution to the government for a tax crime. | Chodyra Mike/Shutterstock[/caption]
After serving two years behind bars, former Total Reclaim owner Jeffrey Zirkle has been sentenced to another six months. This time, he pleaded guilty to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the company and dodging taxes.
A federal court in April 2019 sentenced Total Reclaim owners and co-CEOs Zirkle and Craig Lorch each to two years and four months in prison. The men had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for selling over 8 million pounds of LCD devices for export to Hong Kong while representing to Total Reclaim's clients that the electronics would be recycled responsibly domestically.
The court also ordered the men to pay over $946,000 in restitution, which they did, according to records filed by Zirkle's attorney. About $911,000 of the restitution was paid to the Washington Materials Management and Financing Authority, the stewardship group that meets OEMs' recycling obligations under the state's extended producer responsibility law.
According to court documents and the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, Zirkle, 58, was in custody in Oregon from July 23, 2019 to July 16, 2021, or nearly two years.
Then, in October 2021, the U.S. Attorney's Office charged Zirkle with one count of making and subscribing a false tax return. Prosecutors claimed that, between 2007 and 2019, Zirkle used Total Reclaim credit cards to buy himself $480,000 worth of goods, including a motorcycle, home appliances, a luxury watch, an irrigation system and more, and then he failed to disclose the transaction on his income tax returns (prosecutors noted that he bought at least one of the personal items with a company credit card while he was on pre-trial supervision in the exports fraud case).
On Jan. 18, a federal judge sentenced Zirkle to another six months in prison and ordered him to pay nearly $126,000 in restitution to the government, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office. He reached a deal with Kent, Wash.-based Total Reclaim to repay expenses.
On Jan. 18, a federal judge sentenced Jeffrey Zirkle to six months in prison and ordered him to pay nearly $126,000 in restitution to the government for a tax crime. | Chodyra Mike/Shutterstock[/caption]
After serving two years behind bars, former Total Reclaim owner Jeffrey Zirkle has been sentenced to another six months. This time, he pleaded guilty to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the company and dodging taxes.
A federal court in April 2019 sentenced Total Reclaim owners and co-CEOs Zirkle and Craig Lorch each to two years and four months in prison. The men had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for selling over 8 million pounds of LCD devices for export to Hong Kong while representing to Total Reclaim's clients that the electronics would be recycled responsibly domestically.
The court also ordered the men to pay over $946,000 in restitution, which they did, according to records filed by Zirkle's attorney. About $911,000 of the restitution was paid to the Washington Materials Management and Financing Authority, the stewardship group that meets OEMs' recycling obligations under the state's extended producer responsibility law.
According to court documents and the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, Zirkle, 58, was in custody in Oregon from July 23, 2019 to July 16, 2021, or nearly two years.
Then, in October 2021, the U.S. Attorney's Office charged Zirkle with one count of making and subscribing a false tax return. Prosecutors claimed that, between 2007 and 2019, Zirkle used Total Reclaim credit cards to buy himself $480,000 worth of goods, including a motorcycle, home appliances, a luxury watch, an irrigation system and more, and then he failed to disclose the transaction on his income tax returns (prosecutors noted that he bought at least one of the personal items with a company credit card while he was on pre-trial supervision in the exports fraud case).
On Jan. 18, a federal judge sentenced Zirkle to another six months in prison and ordered him to pay nearly $126,000 in restitution to the government, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office. He reached a deal with Kent, Wash.-based Total Reclaim to repay expenses.
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