MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A Miami-Dade woman who holds dual U.S. and Colombian citizenship pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States by concealing tens of millions of dollars in undeclared foreign financial accounts, filing false tax returns, and evading taxes, a news release from the Department of Justice confirmed Monday.
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Gilda Rosenberg, of Golden Beach, admitted in court that between 2010 and 2022, she worked with two family members to hide more than $90 million in assets and income in offshore accounts in Andorra, Israel, Panama, and Switzerland, avoiding U.S. tax obligations, authorities said.
Prosecutors said Rosenberg’s family had maintained offshore accounts since the 1970s.
By the late 1990s, they said Rosenberg was listed as an owner and authorized signer on some accounts, knowing they had not been disclosed to U.S. authorities or taxed.
Starting in the early 2000s, the family consolidated their assets at Credit Suisse in Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
According to court records, family members openly told Credit Suisse employees they were U.S. persons looking to shield their assets from U.S. authorities.
When Credit Suisse shut down the accounts in 2013, investigators said the funds were moved to new accounts at Bank Leumi in Israel, Union Bancaire Privée and Privat Bank SA in Switzerland, and a bank in Andorra.
Rosenberg was listed as the beneficial owner of accounts at UBP and the Andorran bank. She also falsely claimed on account opening documents that she was a Colombian resident and not a U.S. citizen, prosecutors said.
Authorities said Rosenberg and her relatives failed to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts and submitted false tax returns omitting income from their offshore assets.
In 2017, they allegedly attempted to disguise their tax evasion by transferring assets among family members, falsely claiming some were gifts, according to the DOJ. They also created fake loan and investment documents to make transfers appear legitimate.
From 2010 through 2017, authorities said Rosenberg filed false tax returns that failed to report more than $5.5 million in income, causing a tax loss of nearly $2 million to the IRS.
A DOJ press release obtained by Local 10 News on Monday says Rosenberg is scheduled to be sentenced on May 30 and faces up to five years in prison, along with supervised release, restitution and financial penalties.
The release stated that she had previously pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of Texas to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in a scheme to defraud the Army and Air Force Exchange Service by falsifying reports to avoid paying required commissions.
