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Annie P. Williams, Tax Fraud, New York 2009
A federal lawsuit filed against Annie P. Williams seeks to bar her from preparing federal tax returns for others, the government announced today.
The complaint alleges that Williams, the former proprietor of tax preparation firm PPH Tax & Realty Inc. in Brooklyn, N.Y., employed part-time tax preparers who had little or no tax experience and fostered an environment in which fraudulent return preparation was encouraged.
According to the complaint, Williams’ preparers claimed false expense and charitable contribution deductions, bogus dependents, unallowable child and childcare tax credits, and other improper tax credits on customers’ federal income tax returns. The complaint also alleges that firm employees sold other persons’ names and Social Security numbers to customers so that the customers could falsely report that those individuals were their childcare providers for purposes of falsely claiming the childcare tax credit.
The complaint also alleges that employees sold fake charitable contribution letters to customers to present to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) during audits to substantiate false deductions.
According to the complaint, the amount of tax loss resulting from Williams’ improper tax-preparation activities could be as much as $78 million from 2006 through 2009.
The complaint alleges that Williams’ involvement in illegal tax preparation practices spans more than a decade, beginning in Mississippi where she allegedly trained employees of a tax preparation firm operated by her son, Lenardo Carzette Brown, to prepare fraudulent tax returns. A federal court in the Northern District of Mississippi permanently enjoined Brown’s business and its owners from preparing returns in 2005.
Williams pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion in 2010 and was sentenced to six months in prison.
In the past decade, the Tax Division has obtained injunctions against hundreds of tax return preparers and tax fraud promoters.
Annie P. Williams, age 62, of Brooklyn, New York.
Criminal charge: Tax Evasion.
City and state: Brooklyn, New York.
Date: March 2010.
Sentence: Six months in prison.
Tax loss: As much as $78 million from 2006 through 2009.
Key Facts
- State: Federal
- Category: White Collar Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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