New York Law Journal, Tax Preparer Who Threatened Prosecutor Is Sentenced to 3 to 6 Years:

A tax preparer who sent threatening letters to a Manhattan assistant district attorney who had twice prosecuted him was sentenced Friday to three to six years behind bars.

Prosecutors arrested Jack Chang, 55, last summer after Gilda Mariani, the chief of the money laundering and tax crime unit in the district attorney's office, received two ominous letters. One was addressed to her husband at her home and contained a white powder that turned out to be cornstarch. The other was delivered through interoffice mail.

Both depicted a tombstone with Mariani's name and contained virtually the same message: "I finally got my 9 mil gun and I am insane, you are responsible for my insanity and I will make sure that you get at least one for each and every year I spent incarcerated."

At the time, Mariani was in the midst of prosecuting Chang, the president of Unitax Planners, PA for allegedly stealing more than $100,000 from at least six clients. Previously, Mariani had supervised a 1995 prosecution of Chang, which resulted in the tax preparer being sentenced to one to three years in prison for second-degree grand larceny.