A former Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officer in Glenarden, Maryland, has been sent to prison for attempting to obstruct the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Ishmeal Heru-Bey, formerly known as Jamal Adams, was convicted in October 2015 of corruptly endeavoring to impair and impede the due administration of the internal revenue laws, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
Heru-Bey failed to file timely federal income tax returns for the years 2005 through 2012 to report his MPD wages and other income to the IRS. He submitted three IRS Forms W-4 to the MPD between 2006 and 2010, falsely claiming that he was exempt from federal income tax withholding.
These false forms caused his employer to withhold little or no federal income taxes from his wages during that period. After Heru-Bey was indicted for tax crimes in March 2015, he also filed false income tax returns for the years 2011 through 2014 on which he claimed to have incurred expenses relating to his job with the MPD.
At the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg found that Heru-Bey intended to cause a loss to the IRS between $40,000 and $100,000.
In addition to the prison term, Heru-Bey was also ordered to serve one year of supervised release and pay restitution to the IRS in the amount of $45,712.
Acting Assistant Attorney General Ciraolo thanked special agents of IRS-Criminal Investigation, who investigated the case, and Trial Attorneys Jeffrey A. McLellan and Melissa S. Siskind of the Tax Division, who prosecuted the case.
Heru-Bey’s sentence is a result of a federal jury conviction in the District of Columbia. The case was investigated by the IRS-Criminal Investigation and prosecuted by the Tax Division of the Justice Department.
The defendant’s real full name is Ishmeal Heru-Bey. He was a resident of Glenarden, Maryland, and a former Metropolitan Police Department officer. The exact criminal charges against Heru-Bey are corruptly endeavoring to impair and impede the due administration of the internal revenue laws.
The crime occurred in the District of Columbia. Heru-Bey was sentenced on October 2015 to 11 months in prison. The outcome of the case was a federal jury conviction in the District of Columbia.
The dollar amount of the restitution ordered is $45,712.
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Key Facts
- State: Maryland
- Category: Public Corruption|White Collar Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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