Former East Bay Home Health Care Provider Sentenced To Prison

PLEASANTON, CA — A Pleasanton resident and former home health care provider was sentenced to 18 months in prison this week for failure to account for and pay over trust fund taxes, United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Michael T. Batdorf announced. Muzaffar Hussain, 69, the former Chief Financial Officer of San Francisco Bay Area-based Crossroads Home Health Care, Inc., was was indicted by a federal grand jury on July 30, 2015 and pleaded guilty on June 10, 2016, to failing to account for and pay over the trust fund taxes.

Hussain is also ordered to pay $495,000 in restitution and will be on three years of supervised release once his prison term is complete.

“Hussain admitted that for each pay period between July 1, 2004, and February 27, 2008, he received a Payroll Summary showing wages that had been paid and the employment taxes due,” Department of Justice officials said in a statement. “After receiving the Payroll Summary, the defendant transferred funds from Crossroads’ bank account in an amount equal, or close to, the amount of employment taxes, to bank accounts he controlled.”

Hussain used the funds to pay personal expenses and other business interests, according to the statement.

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