Zachary T. Lee Acting United States Attorney | U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia
A Danville woman has been sentenced to probation and home confinement after admitting she failed to pay more than $600,000 in employment taxes related to her home health care business.
Julia Ann McKinnis, 66, who owned and operated Angel Wings Home Health, was sentenced last week in Roanoke federal court. She will serve three years’ probation, including 12 months of home confinement, and must complete 300 hours of community service.
McKinnis pleaded guilty in October 2024 to one count of willfully failing to pay taxes. According to court documents, she began operating Angel Wings Home Health in 2007 and served as its administrator and majority owner since at least 2010.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) started investigating Angel Wings in 2011 for failing to properly report and pay employment taxes. The investigation ended in 2016 with the company entering an installment agreement with the IRS to address the unpaid taxes.
Despite this agreement, from the third quarter of 2018 through the fourth quarter of 2021, Angel Wings again failed to accurately report employee wages and did not pay required employment taxes.
C. Todd Gilbert, United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia, announced the sentencing along with Kareem Carter, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation’s Washington D.C. Field Office.
"The Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation investigated the case," according to officials. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Scheff prosecuted on behalf of the United States.
