Tag: irs criminal investigation

Tanisha Spencer, Tax Evasion, Missouri 2025
⏱ 2 min read A Kansas City tax preparer has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for filing false tax returns for clients, reaping a whopping $730,709 in restitution. Tanisha Spencer, 35, pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the preparation of false tax returns on December 3, 2025. Spencer, who charged clients up to…

Tauheed Salik Wilder, Unemployment Insurance and PPP Fraud, Michigan 2022
⏱ 2 min read A Detroit scammer’s brazen scheme to bilk taxpayers out of $1.9M in unemployment insurance and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds has ended with a guilty plea. Tauheed Salik Wilder, 43, ripped off hundreds of false claims for unemployment insurance benefits in multiple states, including Michigan and California, using the names and…

Bradley Temple, Unlawful Money Transactions, West Virginia 2023
⏱ 2 min read Bradley Temple, 48, a former Wheeling businessman now squatting in Florida, just copped to a brazen scheme: ripping off $277,000 in COVID-19 relief money. The ex-owner of Righteous Brother’s Trucking pled guilty in federal court this week to unlawful money transactions. The feds say Temple lied to get the cash, then…
