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Former IRS Revenue Officer Sentenced to Six Months for Tax Fraud Scheme in New York 2016
James C. Brewer, a 40-year-old former Revenue Officer of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) assigned to the Edison, New Jersey IRS office, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay $73,548.00 in restitution for his role in a tax fraud scheme.
Brewer, of Staten Island, New York, pleaded guilty on September 19, 2016, to filing or preparing false tax returns, wire fraud, and mail fraud in connection with a scheme to falsify tax returns he filed on behalf of himself and others and enrich himself with inflated refunds from those returns.
As part of the scheme, Brewer failed to report any income he received in connection with his unauthorized tax preparation business and underreported the gross receipts he earned from an Internet retail business, both operated in violation of IRS rules. He also claimed false dependents, listed false dependents and false deductions on tax returns he prepared and filed for others, and diverted a portion of those clients’ refunds to himself without their authorization or knowledge.
Brewer’s actions were part of a multi-year scheme in which he prepared and filed false tax returns for others, including listing the names and social security numbers of various individuals as dependents without their authorization, including two minor children.
The sentence was announced by Bridget M. Rohde, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York; Jonathan D. Larsen, Special Agent-in-Charge, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Newark Field Office; Rodney A. Davis, Special Agent-in-Charge, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), Washington Field Division.
“James Brewer engaged in a tax fraud and identity theft scheme in which he cheated the very tax system he was entrusted to uphold,” stated Acting United States Attorney Rohde. “Today’s sentence reminds government employees they will be held to the level of integrity expected of them, and assures honest taxpayers that no one who commits fraud is above the law.”
The government’s case is being handled by the Office’s Public Integrity Section. Assistant United States Attorneys Marisa Seifan and Moira Kim Penza are in charge of the prosecution.
According to court filings and statements made during the guilty plea, Brewer also falsified testimony in a matter in the United States Tax Court in 2012, lying under oath about his residency to obtain a tax credit for himself to which he was not entitled.
Key Facts
- State: New York
- Category: Public Corruption
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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