IRS seizes attorney records in money laundering probe
Internal Revenue Service agents last year raided the Saco law offices of attorney Gary Prolman to investigate whether he laundered money for a client convicted last year of operating a large multi-state marijuana-smuggling operation. He has not been charged with a crime.
The Portland Press Herald reported Prolman, reached by phone Tuesday, denied knowledge that his client, 29-year-old David Jones of Portland, had any involvement in smuggling drugs and that he and Jones cut off business relations when Jones was arrested in 2012 in Kansas. Until that point, Prolman had represented Jones as a consultant for his music and clothing business. The newspaper reported Prolman later agreed to sell Jones a portion of his sports advisory business, GMP Sports Inc., and jointly buy the building where Prolman has his law office.
According to a recently unsealed November affidavit from IRS Special Agent Janet Pepin, the newspaper reported investigators believe Prolman wilfully avoided federal currency reporting requirements for money he received from Jones for those ventures by breaking up deposits to amounts under a $10,000 reporting threshold.
The newspaper reported that Judge Nancy Torreson’s order to unseal search warrant documents in the case and comments from Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Perry’s office did not indicate what might be next in the case.
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