Man in Marietta Caught for Filing False Income Tax Refunds
A man named Arnold Tobias Gervais, 34, had pleaded guilty this past Wednesday for an attempted scheme to defraud the IRS for over $3.4 million in federal income tax refunds.
The United States Attorney’s Office and the IRS are always on an aggressive search to sift out those that are cheating on taxes, as they take away from those who have to pay their fair share of taxes, as they did with Gervais.
As stated by United States Attorney Yates, Gervais was convicted for his crime in May 2008 and was given 5 years in prison by the Superior Court of Cobby Country. He was caught for submitting a fraudulent tax return, attempting to get a tax refund of over $600,000. For that charge, Gervais was incarcerated until February 26, 2010.
During his custody, Gervais worked through his wife at the time being to file a phony income tax return with the IRS for 2008, containing a claim for a payment of income tax refund of $811,073. Gervais fully knew that these claims were completely fraudulent. In addition to these false claims, he has been caught for six more false claims, dating back all the way to 2004.
All of his false tax returns claimed that there were a significant amount of wages earned from a fictitious business called “Safety Shoes and More, Inc.” that was recorded to be located in Rome, Georgia. Altogether, the total potential tax loss for the IRS was tallied up to $3,488,135.
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Florida Prisoner Caught Filing Fraudulent Federal Income Tax Returns
It seems that prison isn’t a good enough reason to keep you from cheating on your federal income tax.
WJHG (Source Below) has reported that Michael William Joseph III, an inmate of the Apalachee Correctional Institution in Florida, has pleaded guilty for filing fraudulent federal income tax returns to the IRS. This wouldn’t be Joseph’s first conviction of tax fraud, however. He has been serving time for faking federal income tax returns dating all the way back to 2006.
Prison, however, hasn’t kept Joseph from trying to scam the government with some fake federal income tax returns. He had filled out a series of tax forms with fabricated amounts of income and deductions. He had used the identities of his co-inmates in order to validate his returns. The illegitimately refunded federal income tax would then be deposited to various accounts he had control over.
What had tipped off Joseph’s tax scam was the size of his illegal refunds. Joseph had sought a total of nearly $180,000 in federal income tax returns. For a time it seemed that Joseph had managed to pull his scheme off when the government cashed him out for an alleged $50,000.
But investigators quickly got wind of his scam and successfully retrieved over $17,500 of the unlawfully refunded federal income tax from his personal bank account. An additional $11,600 was found in the mother’s ex-husband’s backyard.
The fifty three year old Joseph was indicted on various charges including but not limited to filing false federal income tax returns. Other charges include theft and mail fraud, amounting to a prison sentence of up to twenty years.
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Chiropractor Guilty of Federal Tax Evasion
Rockford – Cevene Care Clinic owner was found guilty for federal income tax evasion last December 21, 2012.
Todd R. Cevene, 42, owner of Cevene Management Group, Inc., Ceven Enterprises, LLC, and, Todd laska Asset Preservation Trust, pleaded guilty for intentionally evading payment of federal income tax. In his plea agreement, he divulged that he has been transferring income from Cevene Care Clinic to his other companies in 2004. He further elaborated that the amassed money were then used to pay for personal expenses knowing that those payments would be improperly used as business expense deductions on entities’ federal income tax returns.
Also in the agreement, he confessed of having most of the money to be transferred directly to his personal account which were not included as income on his personal federal income tax returns.
Cevene admitted that his purpose for transferring the funds to his account was to minimize the risk of exposing his attempts for tax evasion. It has also been found that he made more than one transfer between accounts to make it less suspicious.
Finally, Cevene wrote in the agreement that he owes a large amount of federal income tax for 2004 that he failed to report or pay accordingly. He continued his tax evasion for another 3 years accumulating a total of $91,568 under payment of federal income tax.
Cevene was charged last December 14, 2012 and is scheduled to be sentenced on April 2, 2013. If found guilty, he could have up to five years jail time, with around three years of supervised release after imprisonment and a fine of up to $250,000 plus $500 prosecution costs.
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