Camarillo man and business partner jailed for tax scheme

Two men who owned companies they claimed had technology to remove oil waste from contaminated soils were sentenced recently to four-year prison terms for tax fraud for diverting company funds to themselves and concealing the income from the Internal Revenue Service.

David J. Feuerborn, 51, of Camarillo, and Thomas R. Jennings, 55, of Anaheim Hills, were each sentenced to 4 years in federal prison. Both men were convicted earlier this year by a federal jury on conspiracy and tax fraud charges.

In addition to the prison terms, the men were ordered to pay $1,074,248 in restitution—$ 842,965 to the IRS and $231,283 to the California Franchise Tax Board.

For the past decade, Jennings and Feuerborn owned and operated a series of companies they claimed had developed technology that could separate oil from dirt and other materials without producing any hazardous waste. They claimed they were in the process of patenting a revolutionary chemical solution that, when used in conjunction with specialized machinery, could quickly and efficiently remove oil from contaminated soil.

All of the companies had names that were variants of ESS, such as Environmental Soil Sciences in Camarillo, ESS Environmental in Placentia, and Environmental Services and Support in Anaheim.

Evidence presented during a two-week trial earlier this year showed that Jennings and Feuerborn used a bank account under a name similar to an ESS vendor to funnel to themselves several million dollars that they used for their own personal benefit, including the purchase of numerous cars, motorcycles, and recreational vehicles, as well as country club payments and interior design work at their homes.

In addition to funneling money through this bogus account, Jennings and Feuerborn also paid themselves large management fees—usually $15,000 each per month—for running ESS. The two men instructed ESS’s accountant to falsely characterize these payments as “loans,” a designation that was designed to make the payments appear to be nontaxable.

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