Robert Henry Anderson, 59, of Bloomington, Ill., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States and to commit mail fraud.

According to the plea agreement, Anderson conspired with others to defraud the IRS through a fraudulent tax-credit scheme. The Internal Revenue Code permits producers of certain fuels from non-conventional sources to claim a tax credit if the fuels are sold to unrelated third parties. From 2003 through 2006, Anderson and his co-conspirators promoted a tax-credit scheme involving the sale of such fraudulent tax credits.

The conspirators identified landfills from which they purported to secure rights to the methane gas generated. Anderson, fraudulently claiming to be a professional engineer, created bogus engineering reports containing baseless findings that the landfills identified by conspirators qualified for tax credits. The conspirators then recruited a network of tax-return preparers to whom they promoted their tax-credit scheme, referencing their purported rights in the landfills as well as the bogus engineering reports.

Anderson faces up to five years in prison.

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