Illinois man pleads guilty to failure to file and to pay employment taxes

Date: April 24, 2026

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Brad D. Schimel, First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that George Dilles of Inverness, Illinois, pled guilty to one count of failure to truthfully account for and pay employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 7202. On April 20, 2026, the district court accepted Dilles' guilty plea.

According to the plea agreement, Dilles was the president and part-owner of NG Enterprises, Inc., a company that provided elderly home personal care in the Milwaukee area and over time employed from 50 to 110 workers. Dilles was required to withhold federal income taxes, Social Security taxes, and Medicare taxes from his employees' wages, hold those amounts in trust, and pay them over to the IRS. Additionally, he was responsible for filing quarterly tax returns (Forms 941) reporting those amounts to the IRS, and for paying the employer's matching portion of Social Security and Medicare taxes. For 17 quarters in tax years 2019 through 2023, Dilles willfully failed to file Forms 941 and to pay over the taxes due. Including all relevant conduct, the loss to the IRS totaled more than $1.2 million.

Dilles' sentencing is scheduled for June 26, 2026, at 8:30 a.m. before United States District Court Judge J.P. Stadtmueller. At sentencing, he faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, as well as a term of supervised release after any imprisonment.

IRS, Criminal Investigation, investigated the case, which Assistant U.S. Attorney John P. Scully is prosecuting.

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.