Georgia resident Yolanda Canty and Jacqueline Kier pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the government following an IRS investigation that discovered their fraudulent tax-refund scheme.
The pair was involved in a scheme to file false tax returns based on fabricated W-2 forms in their own names and in the names of others.
Most of the “taxpayers” had no knowledge of the returns being filed in their names.
They would persuade individuals to provide
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Marla Nicole Wells, 38, of Union City, Ga., was sentenced to two years and six months on charges of conspiring to defraud the United States. Beginning in January 2002 and continuing to August 2004, Wells conspired with others to file tax returns for about 59 individuals, claiming refunds to which they were not entitled. The total losses amounted to $222,597. She also filed other returns claiming a total of $60,504.

Two women from Montgomery, Ala., face significant jail time after pleading guilty to tax fraud.Rumekia L. Sanders and Felicia Shanta Jackson, both 29, pleaded guilty to one felony count charging them with conspiring to defraud the United States.
According to the plea agreement and information, in early 2005, Sanders and Jackson were employed by a tax preparation business in Montgomery. Following the instructions of the owner of the business, they caused
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A federal jury convicted A. Thomas Thorson, 67, of New York, for conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Treasury Department and aiding the filing of false income tax returns in connection with a scheme to sell millions in fraudulent income tax deductions.”People who cheat the IRS are cheating their friends, neighbors and fellow citizens,” said United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein.
Testimony at the three-week trial showed Thorson and his co-conspirators persuaded
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A doctor in Northern California pleaded guilty to tax evasion and has agreed to pay the United States $900,000 in back taxes.Leroy Albert Lewis, of Danville, Calif., was charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and four counts of tax evasion. Under the plea agreement, Lewis pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy.
According to the indictment, for more than 10 years, Lewis, an oral surgeon, attempted
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The former owner of a Valencia, Calif., company pleaded guilty to conspiring with the owner of the Oxnard-based Haas Automation Inc., who allegedly engineered a $20 million tax fraud scheme.Robert Gene Cable, 75, the former owner of Enmark Aerospace, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to impede, impair, obstruct and defeat the lawful functions of the IRS. Cable admitted that he conspired with Gene Haas and others employed at
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A former Far Hills, N.J., councilman who served as the town council’s police commissioner pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder approximately $700,000 in what he believed to be the proceeds of loan sharking and illegal gambling as part of a scheme to defraud the IRS of more than $200,000 he owed in personal income taxes.Thomas A. Greenwald, 53, admitted that he was introduced to two individuals allegedly involved in loan
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Matthew Okonkwo, 59, a Nigerian national who had been residing in Dothan, Ala., was sentenced to 24 months in prison on one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and eleven counts of aiding in the preparation of fraudulent income tax returns.
Upon completion of his sentence, Okonkwo will face deportation proceedings.
Convicted by a jury on Nov. 1, 2006, Okonkwo owned Eagle
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