Bradley Bowman, Filing False Claims, Florida 2023

Bradley Bowman, Filing False Claims, Florida 2023

A Lighthouse Point man, Bradley Bowman, has been sentenced to serve 12 months and one day in prison for filing a false claim for a tax refund with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer for the Southern District of Florida and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ronald A. Cimino announced.

Bowman was also ordered to pay $300,403 in restitution to the IRS and to serve three years of supervised release. According to court documents, in 2009, Bowman submitted to the IRS a false individual income tax return for tax year 2005 that fraudulently claimed a refund of $299,024.

Bowman engaged Penny Jones, who is currently serving 12 years in prison in a related case involving more than 380 false returns, to prepare this false return. Bowman fraudulently claimed his gross income was $447,036 and then falsely claimed that all of his income was withheld to satisfy his income tax liabilities.

Bowman pleaded guilty to this charge on May 27. The case was investigated by special agents of the IRS-Criminal Investigation. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Bertha Mitrani for the Southern District of Florida and Trial Attorney Greg Bailey of the Tax Division.

The sentence was handed down by the court in the Southern District of Florida. Bowman's crime was committed in 2009 and he was sentenced on May 2023.

Bowman's sentence includes 12 months and one day in prison, $300,403 in restitution to the IRS, and three years of supervised release.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/florida-man-sentenced-filing-false-claims-internal-revenue-service