MIAMI, FL – Nataliya Vasylivna Kasyanenko, a former housekeeping manager at a large Key West hotel, was sentenced to eight months in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States and conspiring to harbor aliens. Her sentencing is linked to her involvement with Phoenix ADB Services, Inc., a labor staffing business.
From 2009 to 2020, Kasyanenko used multiple hospitality labor staffing companies to hire unauthorized workers at the hotel where she worked. She received kickbacks from these companies and was aware that her sons, who operated Phoenix ADB, paid these workers without withholding federal income or employment taxes.
Several operators of these labor staffing companies have been convicted and sentenced in related cases. Mykhaylo Chugay, an operator of several such companies, was sentenced to 292 months in prison. Oleksandr Morgunov and Volodymyr Ogorodnychuk received 96 and 48 months, respectively. Batyr Myatiev, the owner of American Hospitality and Golden Sands, was sentenced to 32 months. Kasyanenko’s sons, Igor and Roman, received 22 and 18 months, respectively.
U.S. District Judge Donald L. Graham also ordered Kasyanenko to serve two years of supervised release and pay about $1.09 million in restitution.
The case was investigated by IRS-CI Miami and HSI Miami. Prosecutors included Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Clark, Senior Litigation Counsel Sean Beaty, and multiple Trial Attorneys from the Tax Division.