According to official records obtained by El Tejano, the following details come from a press release issued by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas.
💐 A Houston florist who worked million-dollar corporate events was hiding money from the IRS. Now she is headed to a federal court to be sentenced.
Le Hao Tran owns Blooming Gallery LLC in Houston. Her company does flowers for weddings and big corporate events. She also owns HTX Rental and Delivery Service LLC, which helps run those jobs.
From 2019 to 2022, Tran did not report all the money she made to the IRS. She took some customer checks to check-cashing stores instead of the bank. Some checks she deposited but never wrote down in her company books.
💰 The numbers are big. One corporate client paid her more than $2.7 million for flowers at a single event. In 2022 alone, she made more than $9 million. She only told the IRS about $7 million of it.
In total, the IRS was shorted $1,391,167. Tran has already paid that amount back in full.
She pleaded guilty to one count of filing a false tax return. The count covers the 2022 tax year.
⚖️ U.S. District Judge George C. Hanks will sentence her on September 11. She faces up to three years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000. She is free on bond while she waits.
Acting U.S. Attorney John G.E. Marck for the Southern District of Texas announced the case.
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