Sameerah Marrell, $27 Million Tax Fraud, Michigan 2023

A former Detroit resident has been sentenced to prison for a tax fraud scheme where she sought to cheat the Internal Revenue Service and the state treasuries of six states of over $27 million in fraudulent tax refunds, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison today.

Sameerah Marrell, aka ‘Sameerah Anderson,’ aka ‘Sameerah Pickett,’ aka ‘Crème,’ aka ‘Loren Boyd,’ age 42, received the sentence from the Honorable Linda V. Parker, United States District Judge, in Detroit, Michigan.

Marrell was sentenced to 4 ½ years in prison for a tax fraud scheme where she sought to cheat the Internal Revenue Service and the state treasuries of six states of over $27 million in fraudulent tax refunds.

The scheme began in 2014 and continued through April 2022. During that time, Marrell and other accomplices defrauded the Internal Revenue Service and the State Treasury Departments of Minnesota, Georgia, Maryland, Arizona, Connecticut, and Colorado, by filing 122 false and fictitious Income Tax Returns for Estates and Trusts and numerous state income tax returns, seeking over $13,690,341 from the IRS and $14,730,365 from the six states.

Marrell pleaded guilty on January 11, 2023 to Mail Fraud, Wire Fraud, and Committing an Offense While On Bond. Judge Parker also ordered that the defendant serve three years on supervised release after her release from federal custody and pay the remaining restitution owed totaling $7,979,041.71.

During the course of the scheme, Marrell had successfully stolen $8.5 million, and the amount owed in restitution has been reduced by money, cars, and jewelry seized by the federal government and the states from Marrell during the course of this investigation.

The Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation investigated the case, and it was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Craig Weier and Adriana Dydell of the United States Attorney’s Office.