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A crooked tax pro who ripped off the IRS out of nearly half a million bucks has been sentenced to 18 months in the slammer, authorities announced Friday.
Diana Miller-Lloyd, 45, of Port Orange, Florida, used her tax preparation business, Lloyd Forenzique & Accounting Services Corporation, to scam the system, filing fake returns for high-income clients and cooking the books to get them bigger refunds.
Between 2016 and 2021, Miller-Lloyd attempted to swindle the IRS out of $1,062,293 in fake refunds and reductions, but the feds caught on to her scheme and only paid out $472,913 before freezing the funds.
Miller-Lloyd, who operated her business in Middlefield, Windsor, Branford, and Guilford, also used the credentials of a licensed CPA to defend her fake returns when the IRS came knocking.
U.S. District Judge Sarala V. Nagala ordered Miller-Lloyd to pay $467,717 in restitution to the IRS and handed down the 18-month sentence, which will be followed by one year of supervised release.
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📋 Key Facts
- Crime: White Collar Crime
- Defendant: Connecticut
- Location: CT
- Source: DOJ Press Release
