Editor’s Note: The original headline incorrectly stated the amount of taxes Derek Chauvin and his wife failed to pay.
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged in the death of George Floyd, was, along with his wife Kellie, charged with nine counts of felony tax evasion, the Washington County prosecutor’s office announced on Wednesday.
The couple failed to file Minnesota income tax returns from 2016 through 2019 and fraudulently filed tax returns from 2014 to 2019, the prosector’s office said. The couple underreported filings by $464,433, including more than $95,000 that Derek Chauvin earned from off-duty security work, according to NPR.
According to the Washington Post, the couple owes 38,000 in taxes.
“The complaints allege that the Chauvins knew of their obligation to file state income tax returns due to their filings in previous years and from multiple correspondences sent in 2019 by the department regarding their missing 2016 individual income tax return,” the district attorney’s statement said.
Revenue investigators began reviewing the Chauvins in June. Chauvin was charged with second-degree murder in connection to Floyd’s death on June 3.
Floyd was detained at the end of May on suspicion of forgery. He had just purchased cigarettes from a corner store but employees of that store said Floyd passed a fake $20 bill and called police, authorities said. Video shows Floyd being handcuffed and talking to officers outside his car.
Later, he was taken to a cruiser, which is when Chauvin and another officer arrived.
Video shows Chauvin kneeling directly on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes as Floyd screams, “I can’t breathe” and he, along with onlookers, ask police to help him. Authorities said Chauvin remained on Floyd’s neck even as Floyd lost consciousness, and also for a full minute after paramedics arrived.
Kellie Chauvin filed for divorce at the end of May.
Through her attorney, Kellie Chauvin said she is devastated by the death of George Floyd and expressed her sympathy to “his family, with his loved ones and with everyone who is grieving.”
The couple were married for a decade.
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