Nuclear Engineer pleads guilty to tax crimes

Source:  Post Gazette

Nuclear engineer guilty of conspiracy, tax evasion

Tuesday, September 26, 2006
By Paula Reed Ward
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A nuclear engineer who formerly worked for Westinghouse Electric Corp. pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to conspiracy and tax evasion.

Initially, Mark M. Kaushansky, 55, of Monroeville, was charged with helping Russia's former atomic energy minister steal more than $9 million in aid money from the U.S. Department of Energy.

But the plea before Senior U.S. District Judge Maurice B. Cohill included just nine of the original 20 counts against him, and they all related to tax evasion.