Former Mass. accounting, real estate exec sentenced to prison for $1 million IRS fraud
By Bryan Lambert
Published on April 8, 2026.
Former Massachusetts accounting and real estate executive, Stephen Hochberg, has been sentenced to two years in prison for defrauding the IRS out of over $1 million. He and his business partner, Charles Katz, allegedly devised a scheme to pay Hochburg significant amounts off the books in exchange for lower employment taxes. Hochberger was the Director of Corporate Services at Katz's accounting firm and Chief Operating Officer at his own real estate firm. He was convicted of eight counts of wire fraud and nine counts of securities fraud and was sentenced to more than five years in federal prison.
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