Two Utah men indicted in tax violations

Two Utah men were indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday for allegedly filing a false income tax return in 2002.

Thomas J. Hook of Sandy and Gregory H. Christoffersen of Bountiful were both named in the first count of the indictment, which says they filed a false corporate income tax return for the Westerner Private Club that year.

The income tax return reported gross receipts and sales of $659,128, but the "defendants then and there well knew and believed, this line item was false because the tax return failed to report material additional gross receipts," the indictment said.

In count two of the indictment, Hook was charged with filing a false individual return in the same year. The indictment says that Hook reported an adjusted gross income of $17,994, but prosecutors say there should have been addition income reported.

The potential maximum penalty for each count is three years in prison and a fine of $100,000.

— Ethan Thomas