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Ex-Hockey Treasurer Gets Eight Months in Prison for Tax Evasion
Steven Brier, former treasurer of District 2 of the Minnesota Amateur Hockey Association, was sentenced to eight months in prison for tax evasion.
The former Minnesota Amateur Hockey Association (now Minnesota Hockey) District 2 treasurer was sentenced to eight months in prison for evading his personal income taxes in 2010, according to a Department of Justice press release.
Steven Brier was charged on Dec. 4, and he pleaded guilty on Dec. 17, according to the release.
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In his plea agreement, Brier admitted from April 2005 through September 2011, he stole at least $384,000 during his time as treasurer for the Minnesota Amateur Hockey Association, District 2. As treasurer, Brier had signature authority for the District 2 bank accounts and only one signature was required on the checks issued by the Association. Brier acknowledges that he wrote unauthorized checks to himself from District 2’s bank account. The treasurer position was not a paid position, so Brier was only supposed to receive money from the Association for reimbursable expenses paid out-of-pocket. To avoid detection and to make the checks look legitimate, Brier wrote “scheduling” and “playoff expense” in the memo line to make it appear that the checks were reimbursements of expenses he paid out-of-pocket.