United States v. Gorodetsky

Statements of Reasons for Sentences Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c)(2)

JACK B. WEINSTEIN, Senior District Judge:

I. Introduction

Defendants Shalom Rabkin and Mendy Gorodetsky are business partners. They jointly own and operate Asbestways Services Corporation (“Asbestways”), a licensed environmental abatement company with some fifty employees located in Brooklyn, New York. See Rabkin Sentencing Hr’g Tr. 15-16.

Each defendant pled guilty to a one-count information charging income tax evasion, 26 U.S.C. § 7201. From 2006 to 2008, both defendants significantly underreported their income for federal…