Criminal Case
For years, West Virginia resident John Quintrell ran his Kentucky coal mining company, Civil LLC, like the rules didn’t apply to him.
From September 2018 to April 2025, Quintrell served as Civil LLC’s sole owner, and each pay day between October 2019 and March 2025, Quintrell’s employees trusted that taxes withheld from their paychecks went where they were supposed to go.
Unfortunately, they didn’t.
Beyond failing to pay his employees’ withheld taxes, Quintrell also failed to pay Civil LLC’s employer share of payroll taxes, causing a loss to the IRS of approximately $22.1 million.
In February, Quintrell was sentenced to four years in prison and three years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay $22.1 million in restitution.
Each month, IRS-CI selects one criminal case adjudicated during the previous month as the Tax Case of the Month. This month’s case was investigated by the IRS-CI Detroit Field Office.
IRS-CI is the law enforcement arm of the IRS, responsible for conducting financial crime investigations, including tax fraud, narcotics trafficking, money laundering, public corruption, healthcare fraud, identity theft and more. It is the only federal law enforcement agency with investigative jurisdiction over violations of the Internal Revenue Code. IRS-CI has 18 field offices located across the U.S. and maintains an international presence through attaché posts abroad.
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