In a brazen scheme to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Social Security Administration, a Bedford, Virginia couple has been sentenced to prison.
Edgar Foxx, 50, and Contina Foxx, 42, were sentenced to prison terms of 41 months and 30 months, respectively, by U.S. District Judge Norman K. Moon of the Western District of Virginia.
The Foxxes were convicted of filing a false 2008 income tax return, failing to file their 2009 through 2011 tax returns, and theft of government money. Contina Foxx was also convicted of providing a false statement for health care benefits.
According to evidence introduced at trial, the Foxxes owned and operated a metal recycling business between 2008 and 2012, gathering scrap metal materials and selling them to recycling facilities in Southwest Virginia and Tennessee. During this period, they received over $500,000 in payments from several metal recycling companies, but failed to report any of this income on their 2008 through 2011 individual income tax returns.
Contina Foxx also provided false information to the Social Security Administration, failing to disclose the income earned from the metal recycling business. As a result, the Foxxes unlawfully received approximately $80,000 in Medicaid benefits between 2010 and 2012.
Edgar and Contina Foxx were convicted on Nov. 6, 2015, following a four-day trial. They were ordered to pay $147,708 in restitution and serve three years of supervised release following their release from prison.
The Justice Department commended special agents of IRS-Criminal Investigation, the Office of Inspector General for the Social Security Administration, the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services, the Bedford Department of Social Services, and the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office, who investigated the case.
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Key Facts
- State: Virginia
- Category: Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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