Raleigh, NC -- Sentencing is scheduled for next month for a man authorities said was involved in an offshore tax-fraud scheme in the Bahamas that involved a former head of the North Carolina Republican Party.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Charlotte said Friday that Howell Woltz, who has pleaded guilty, is due to be sentenced Oct. 1 for his role in the case that also involved Samuel T. Currin of Raleigh, a former U.S. attorney, state judge and state Republican chairman.
Currin was sentenced this week to almost six years in federal prison on charges related to tax fraud conspiracy.
An indictment last year said Currin, tax attorney Ricky Graves, Howell Woltz and his wife, Vernice Woltz, were charged in the case.
Graves was acquitted in April, said Suellen Pierce, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Charlotte. Vernice Woltz pleaded guilty to conspiracy and has served a nine-month prison sentence, Pierce said.
Howell Woltz was president of Sterling Trust in the Bahamas; Vernice Woltz was a director of Sterling Trust. The couple owned property in Advance.
