MIAMI — Gilda Rosenberg, the founder of a vending machine supplier in Miami-Dade County, will have to spend more than two years in federal prison, prosecutors announced on Monday.
Rosenberg, 60, the founder of Gilly Vending, admitted to filing false tax returns to hide income generated by offshore assets, according to the federal court’s plea agreement she signed in March.
On Friday, a federal judge sentenced the Colombian-American entrepreneur to 30 months in prison for the $1.9 million tax evasion case involving her family’s more than $90 million in bank accounts in Andorra, Israel, Panama, and Switzerland, records show.
Rosenberg, a dual citizen who lived in Golden Beach, disclosed her Colombian citizenship but not her U.S. citizenship to bankers, and she did not comply with the required IRS foreign bank and financial accounts filings, according to federal prosecutors.
Some of the accounts involved in the tax evasion case were with Credit Suisse in Switzerland and the United Kingdom, Bank Leumi in Israel, and Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) and PKB Privat Bank SA in Switzerland, records show.
According to investigators, Rosenberg and her family divided their assets about eight years ago and “gifted” some of their offshore assets to a relative who had renounced his U.S. citizenship, records show.
There were fake loans and business investments to hide more than $5.5 million in earnings, according to prosecutors. Rosenberg was also convicted of federal charges in a wire fraud conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Army and Air Force Exchange Service in Texas, records show.
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