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On July 23, Kim Meas, of the 600 block of West Moyamensing Avenue, learned his fate from U.S. District Court Judge Jan E. Dubois. According to a U.S. Department of Justice-supplied release, the 60-year-old native of Cambodia served as the managing director of LS Services Corp., formerly 1615 Snyder Ave., an employee leasing company.
The report notes that Meas pleaded guilty on Nov. 24 to two counts of conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, two counts of transporting illegal aliens and two counts of failure to collect and pay federal income and employment taxes. It explains that as the principal corporate officer for LS, he negotiated labor leasing contracts with Greater Delaware Valley entities that leased temporary workers from his corporation. He also created approximately 14 shell companies to craft the illusion that workers leased to other companies were actually employees of the shell corporations.
Because of that, the report notes, the shell corporations would be responsible for collecting and paying employment and income taxes for the hires, not LS. Meas attempted to thwart the Internal Revenue Service from determining the identity of the employer of the illegal figures, along with the amount of employment and income taxes that the employer of the individuals was required to pay to the federal treasury.
The document also states LS transported the aliens free of charge to numerous work sites in company vehicles. The companies that leased employees from LS did not withhold federal income taxes on wages paid to the individuals, nor did they collect and pay to the IRS the employment taxes on the workers’ incomes.
Along with the two-and-a-half-year jail stint, Dubois ordered Meas to make restitution to the IRS in the amount of $1.7 million during three years of supervised release, with a $600 special assessment and $23 million in forfeiture as additional consequences.
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