A New Hartford woman has been sentenced to five months of imprisonment, followed by five months of home confinement and a $3,000 fine, for filing false tax returns and structuring currency transactions.

According to court documents and statements made in court, between 2007 and 2009, while working as an office manager for a medical practice in Hartford, Andrea Dobrozensky made numerous transfers and deposits from the medical practice business bank account into her personal bank account as compensation for her services to the medical practice and untaken vacation time. During those three years, Dobrozensky willfully failed to provide her tax return preparer with information concerning her receipt of approximately $247,000 in additional taxable income. Each year, Dobrozensky signed her completed federal tax return and it was filed with the IRS. As a result, $247,000 in taxable income was not reported on Dobrozenky’s federal tax returns for the 2007, 2008 and 2009 tax years, and she failed to pay a total of $76,750 in additional taxes owed.

Dobrozensky also unlawfully structured financial transactions, having a friend help her cash checks just below $10,000 to avoid filing Currency Transaction Reports (CTR) for currency transactions that exceed $10,000. On Nov. 27, 2012, Dobrozensky allegedly did this at a Farmington Bank branch in Avon. As part of her sentence, Dobrozensky was ordered to forfeit $9,900 related to her structuring activity.

Prior to sentencing, Dobrozensky paid the IRS $97,986 in back taxes and interest. She also is required to pay penalties on her unpaid taxes. On Oct. 13, 2015, she pleaded guilty to one count of filing a false tax return and one count of unlawfully structuring financial transactions.

Her accomplice in the structuring offenses, David Raymond, of Glastonbury, has pleaded guilty to one count of structuring financial transactions. He currently awaits sentencing.