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CdA physician gets month in federal lockup |
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June 20, 2017 |
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Toelle (left) and Dr. Stanley Toelle |
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U.S. Chief District Judge B. Lynn Winmill
sentenced Coeur d'Alene gastroenterologist Dr.
Stanley Toelle to one month in federal prison to
be followed by one year supervised release for
submitting false income tax returns in 2012 and
2013, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez
announced today.
Pursuant to a plea agreement, Toelle admitted
that his and his wife’s joint tax returns were
false because they did not report that his wife,
Loren Toelle, was conducting business
activities. Dr. Toelle admitted that Loren
Toelle generated income of $52,692.00 in 2012
and $111,396.00 in 2013, none of which was
reported.
As a result, Judge Winmill also ordered Toelle
to pay $47,597.31 in restitution for back taxes
on this revenue. Judge Winmill also ordered
Toelle to pay a $5,000 fine.
Loren Toelle, allegedly a former Las Vegas
stripper now divorced from Dr. Toelle, pled
guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled
substances and conspiracy to launder money. She
was sentenced to 212 months in prison after
admitting to being the organizer and leader of
her drug trafficking and money laundering
organization, which involved her children and
friends.
This group sold oxycodone, heroin and
methamphetamine in Idaho, Washington, Montana
and North Dakota. The organization sold an
average of about $1 million of illegal narcotics
per year from 2012 through 2014.
Toelle maintains that he did not know about
Loren Toelle’s drug organization or that it was
the source of her income. In a separate civil
action, he agreed to forfeit $150,000 to resolve
forfeiture claims on two homes and other assets
that constituted proceeds of Loren Toelle’s drug
trafficking organization.
The case is a result of a joint investigation
and cooperative law enforcement efforts of the
Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force
(OCDETF), including the FBI North Idaho Violent
Crime Task Force which consist of the Coeur
d’Alene Police Department, the Kootenai County
Sheriff’s Office, Post Falls Police Department,
Kootenai County Sheriff’s Department, Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA), Internal
Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI),
U.S. Marshal Service and Department of Homeland
Security.
Other agencies involved include the Williston,
North Dakota, Police Department, the United
States Attorney’s Offices in Las Vegas, Nevada
and North Dakota, the FBI in North Dakota,
Williams County Sheriff’s Office, U.S. Border
Patrol, Williston Police Department, North
Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation,
Northwest Narcotics Task Force, the Washington
State Patrol, the U.S. Marshal Service in Las
Vegas, IRS-CI in Las Vegas, and the DEA in Las
Vegas and the United States Attorney’s Office in
Idaho.
The indictments are the result of a joint
investigation of the Organized Crime and Drug
Enforcement Task Force, a federal multi agency,
multi- jurisdictional task force that supplies
supplemental federal funding to federal and
state agencies involved in the identification,
investigation, and prosecution of major drug
trafficking organizations. |
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