Posts Tagged ‘fraud’

Lessons From the Tax Fraud Files: Do Not Claim 19 Non-Existent Dependents on Your Tax Returns

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

California Women Faces 143 years in federal prison and fines totaling $5.6 million for tax fraud
This seems like a no brainer, however Norma Coronel of Livermore, California, thought she could outwit the IRS by claiming 19 non-existent children on her federal tax returns.
Coronel, who now faces 143 years in prison and $5.6 million in fines, claimed she had 19 children on the same day: Dec. 11, 2002 in Los
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Tags: Dependents, False dependents, fraud, IRS, Norma Coronel, tax fraud
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Nuclear Engineer Sentenced for Evasion

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

A nuclear engineer will spend the next 15 months in prison after pleading guilty to fraud and tax evasion.Mark M. Kaushansky, 56, of Monroeville, Penn., was also fined $20,000 and ordered to serve three years of supervised release after completing his sentence.
Kaushansky had previously pleaded guilty to obstructing the Internal Revenue Service in the collection of the revenues and eight counts of personal and corporate tax evasion. The court had
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Tags: fraud, tax evasion
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SIX IN ALA. SCHEMED TO RIP OFF GOVERNMENT TO TUNE OF $700,000

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

An elaborate scheme to file false tax returns resulted in the indictment of six Birmingham, Ala., residents on charges of conspiracy, filing false claims, bank fraud and witness tampering.
The government alleges that six people — Al Morton Jr., 37; Cheryl Harrell, 39; Queshawndra Randolph, 29; Alteago Hopson, 30; Pearline Bloxom, 25; and Katisha Brown, 39 — filed 121 false
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Tags: conspiracy, FALSE TAX RETURNS, fraud
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