New Jersey Business Owner Pleads Guilty to Evading Over $3.4 Million in Taxes

A Gloucester County man admits to hiding business income for seven years, faces prison and hefty fines.

A Gloucester County resident confessed in federal court to a multi-million-dollar tax evasion scheme involving his medical-records digitizing business, according to an announcement by Acting U.S. Attorney Vikas Khanna. Jose Camilo Perez, Jr., 54, of Sewell, New Jersey, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Renée Marie Bumb to a single count of tax evasion, acknowledging he willfully skirted paying more than $3.4 million in taxes.

Key Details and Timeline

• Who: Jose Camilo Perez, Jr., age 54, owner of a medical-records digitizing company.
• What: Pleaded guilty to evading $3.4 million in federal income taxes.
• When: From 2016 through 2023, Perez admits to cashing checks from the business to hide income.
• Where: The checks were cashed at a check-cashing business rather than deposited into business or personal bank accounts; legal proceedings took place in New Jersey.
• How: Perez used the cash for personal expenses and payroll, never reporting any of the business’s more than $8 million in revenue to the IRS over seven years.

Potential Penalties

The charge of tax evasion carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Sentencing before Chief Judge Bumb is slated for May 20, 2025.

Investigation and Prosecution

Acting U.S. Attorney Khanna credited “special agents of IRS-Criminal Investigation, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Jenifer L. Piovesan in Newark,” for leading the probe. The government’s case is prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel A. Friedman of the U.S. Attorney’s Office Criminal Division in Camden.

Local officials stress that this case underscores the federal government’s commitment to pursuing individuals who undermine tax laws, costing taxpayers millions of dollars in lost revenue. Such prosecutions aim to reinforce the seriousness of financial compliance and deter similar conduct in the future.