In October of last year, Cavener waived her right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty before United States District Judge M. Douglas Harpool of failing to pay more than $357,000.00 in federal taxes.
According to the sentencing memorandum, Cavener was corporate secretary, majority owner, and Manager of Cavener's Library and Office Supplies, Inc. in Nevada, where she employed an average of three to five employees during the decade of criminal misconduct. Cavener's guilty plea, she admitted she withheld federal income taxes, Social Security taxes, and Medicare taxes from wages of her employees, but willfully failed to pay over those taxes to the IRS from 2001 to 2011.
