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The  (IRS) is the United States agency with primary responsibility for enforcing federal tax laws, working with the Department of Justice.聽Whistleblowers with knowledge of violations of the federal tax laws can submit a claim to the IRS under the IRS Whistleblower Reward Program, and may be eligible to receive a monetary reward.


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November 9, 2017

				 A business owner was charged by a federal grand jury in Boston, Massachusetts, with attempting to obstruct the internal revenue laws, aiding and assisting in the filing of fraudulent corporate, personal, and employment tax returns, tax evasion, and structuring financial transactions, announced the Justice Department鈥檚 Tax Division. According to the indictment, Nicholas Boulas, of North Reading, owned and operated Nick鈥檚 Painting Service Inc. (NPS), which provided painting services to residential and commercial customers in the Boston area.  From 2009 through 2014, Boulas allegedly concealed approximately $4 million in business receipts by cashing approximately $2.7 million in checks and directing a substantial number of customers to write checks to him personally, which he cashed and deposited using multiple personal bank accounts.  According to the indictment, he structured cash transactions to involve less than $10,000 in currency in order to evade the banks鈥� reporting requirements 鈥� banks are required to file reports with the U.S. Treasury for transactions involving more than $10,000 of currency, conducted by or on behalf of the same person on the same day.  

				 					 

						
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October 30, 2017

				 A St. George, Utah, financial advisor pleaded guilty to his role in selling fraudulent tax-avoidance and investment strategies to his clients, announced the Justice Department鈥檚 Tax Division. According to documents and information provided to the court, Henry Brock, pleaded guilty to tax evasion, securities fraud and wire fraud.  Brock founded a financial services company in 2009 and served as the president from 2009 through 2017.  As President, he marketed and sold a fraudulent tax scheme, called 鈥淚RA Exit Strategy,鈥� to potential investors.  Brock promised investors that he could provide a way for them to avoid paying taxes on IRA withdrawals, which would otherwise be subject to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) penalties and taxes.  To implement his scheme, Brock caused his business to issue tax forms to his clients falsely representing that they were investors in his business who incurred losses, which served to offset the clients鈥� tax liabilities.  As a result, Brock caused clients to file fraudulent income tax returns claiming a total of approximately $3.8 million in bogus business losses and resulting in a tax loss of over $1.1 million. DOJ citizen, who resided in St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced to 78 months in prison for mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, voter fraud, and re-entering the United States after having been removed. According to documents filed with the court, Kevin Kunlay Williams, a.k.a. Kunlay Sodipo, 56, and others stole public school employees鈥� IDs from a payroll company and used them to electronically file more than 2,000 fraudulent federal income tax returns seeking more than $12 million in refunds. He also stole several return preparer鈥檚 Electronic Filing Identification Numbers (EFINs) and used them to secure tax-related bank products and services that facilitated the issuance of tax refunds, to include blank check stock and debit cards. Williams used the blank stock to print checks funded by the fraudulent refunds and directed some of the refunds onto debit cards. 				 					 

						
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October 17, 2017

				 A federal jury sitting in Miami, Florida, convicted a resident of Pompano Beach, Florida, of filing fraudulent tax returns, wire fraud and filing false monthly reports with the U.S. Probation Office. According to evidence presented at trial, Timothy J. Beverley, 61, worked as an airplane broker at Majestic Jet Inc., a company in Pompano Beach that provided aircraft charters.  From 2010 through 2013, Beverley stole more than $1.5 million from Majestic Jet by directing airplane escrow agents to wire funds from the sale of planes to nominee bank accounts that Beverley controlled.  Beverley also stole funds directly from Majestic鈥檚 business bank accounts and used the money to pay for personal expenses including his boat and rent.  Beverley did not report this income on his 2010 through 2013 personal tax returns.  While working at Majestic Jet, Beverley was on supervised release stemming from his federal conviction for money laundering in January 2004.  As a condition of his supervised release, Beverley was required to file monthly reports with the U.S. Probation Office that listed his net earnings from employment.  Between November 2009 through October 2012, Beverley did not disclose the money he stole from Majestic Jet on his filed reports. 				 					 

						
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October 16, 2017

				 A federal court in Houston, Texas, permanently enjoined Levett Navarro Camarena and her son Chase Edward Camarena from preparing federal tax returns for others, including under the name of the business Hispanic Services. Levett Camarena and Chase Camarena agreed to civil injunction orders that require them to cease preparing federal tax returns. According to the government鈥檚 complaint, Levett Camarena and Chase Camarena, through a business called Hispanic Services located on Nyland Street in Houston, Texas, routinely prepared federal tax returns for customers that contained false, improper, or inflated individual deductions on Schedule A (Itemized Deductions) and business expenses on  Schedule C (Profit and Loss from Business Sole Proprietorship).  Furthermore, the returns reported Schedule C businesses that did not exist, according to the complaint. 

				 					 

						
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October 6, 2017

				 A federal grand jury in Brooklyn, New York, returned indictments separately charging two tax return preparation business owners with stolen identity tax refund fraud. The first indictment charges Hakeem Bamgbala, a Brooklyn resident and owner of Kaybamz Inc., a tax preparation business in Brooklyn; Afolabi Ajelero, a Queens resident; and Michael Campbell, a Brooklyn resident, with conspiring to commit aggravated identity theft and aggravated identity theft.  Bamgbala and Ajelero also are charged with wire fraud.  The indictment alleges that Bamgbala and Ajelero used stolen IDs to file tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and obtain refunds to which they were not entitled.  Bamgbala and Ajelero allegedly purchased tax refund products that allowed them to print client refund checks drawn on a bank account into which the IRS directly deposited the refunds.  Bamgbala, Ajelero and Campbell allegedly conspired to deposit these checks into a second bank account and then withdrew the funds. 				 					 

						
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September 25, 2017

				 A federal court in Detroit, Michigan has permanently barred Tax Pioneer Co. and its owner Dieasha Davis from operating a tax return preparation business and preparing federal tax returns for others. Tax Pioneer Co. and Davis agreed to the civil injunction order entered against them. According to the suit filed in January 2017, Davis, a former manager and tax return preparer for a Liberty Tax Service franchisee, prepared fraudulent tax returns both during her time at Liberty Tax Service and, since 2013, at Tax Pioneer. Davis and Tax Pioneer prepared tax returns with false or inflated income and expenses, bogus dependents, improper filing statuses, and false itemized deductions, all with the purpose of fraudulently maximizing customer refunds and refundable credits, according to the complaint. The government also alleges that Davis advised at least one customer audited by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to submit false records to the IRS in an effort to convince auditors that bogus expenses claimed on the customer鈥檚 tax returns were, in fact, legitimate. 				 					 

						
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September 25, 2017

				 An Orem, Utah former chiropractor, who also owned a health care products business, was sentenced to 33 months in prison for tax evasion and corruptly endeavoring to obstruct the internal revenue laws. Louis Hansen, 65, was convicted following a jury trial in July.  According to documents submitted to the court and evidence presented at trial, Hansen attempted to evade the payment of his federal income taxes for the years 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2010.  For the years 2005, 2006 and 2010, Hansen filed a tax return reporting that he owed taxes, but did not fully pay the amounts due. For 2007, Hansen鈥檚 return was audited and additional taxes assessed.  In March 2012, Hansen sent a check to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the amount of $342,699 that was drawn on a closed bank account held in the name of another individual, and claimed that the check paid off his tax debt.  Hansen then sent a signed letter to the revenue officer assigned to collect his unpaid taxes, claiming that he had paid the taxes owed.  A few months later, Hansen sent 10 additional checks all in the amount of $425,000, to at least six IRS locations, all drawn on another closed account in the name of a different individual, claiming to pay the back taxes due.  				 					 

						
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September 22, 2017

				 Two Broward County, Florida tax return preparers were sentenced to prison for conspiring to file and filing fraudulent tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). According to documents and information provided to the court, Fertilien, Joseph and Frantz Petit-Dos owned two tax preparation businesses in Lauderhill, Florida: Imperial Taxation and Multi-Services Corp. and Aleluya Universal Accounting Services Inc.  From approximately 2010 through 2016, Fertilien, Joseph and Petit-Dos filed fraudulent returns for their clients seeking refunds to which the clients were not entitled, by reporting fictitious business income, fraudulent education and fuel tax credits and claiming deceased individuals, whose identities were stolen, as dependents.  Fertilien, Joseph and Petit-Dos did not report the illegal proceeds they received from this scheme on their personal tax returns.  The court found that Fertilien and Joseph caused a tax loss of more than $1 million.  				 					 

						
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September 22, 2017

				 A Reno, Nevada attorney was convicted following a three-week jury trial, of filing false tax returns and obstructing the internal revenue laws. According to the indictment and the evidence presented at trial, from approximately 2009 through 2010, Delmar Hardy, 63, concealed his business partner鈥檚 $700,000 investment in XYZ Real Estate.  Hardy concealed his partner鈥檚 stake in XYZ and obstructed the internal revenue laws by falsely claiming all of XYZ Real Estate鈥檚 profits and losses on his own 2009 and 2010 individual tax returns.  Hardy also falsified his 2008 through 2010 returns by not reporting more than $400,000 in cash income his law practice received. 				 					 

						
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September 18, 2017

				 Two men have been indicted by a federal grand jury in San Francisco on charges related to an investment fund scheme. G. Steven Burrill is charged with wire fraud, investment adviser fraud, and tax evasion in connection with an alleged scheme to siphon money from an investment fund. Marc Howard Berger is charged with aiding and assisting in the preparation of tax returns in which Burrill failed to report income he received from the scheme. According to the 34-count indictment, Burrill was the owner and CEO of Burrill & Company (B&C) and a number of related entities. Through the entities, Burrill allegedly managed investment funds, including Burrill Life Sciences Capital Fund III, L.P. (the "Fund"), an investment fund focused on the life sciences industry. The Fund was comprised of total committed capital of approximately $283 million, most of which, according to the indictment, was committed by limited partners. The indictment alleges that Burrill induced limited partners to contribute capital to the Fund with false and misleading letters. In addition, the indictment alleges Burrill caused the Fund to transfer millions of dollars in management fees to companies he controlled; the money was in excess of the management fees that were due and allowable under the agreements that governed the Fund. 				 					 

						
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