Tag: IRS Fraud
Junera Holt Sr., Tax and Wire Fraud, Ohio 2021
⏱ 2 min read A mother and her two sons from Lorain County, Ohio, have been charged with conspiring to defraud the IRS and pandemic-era programs of more than $5 million. Junera Holt Sr., 55, and her sons, Divante Holt, 32, and Richard Henry, 35, allegedly orchestrated two conspiracies to submit fraudulent applications and claims…
Charles D. Katz, Loan Fraud, Massachusetts 2025
⏱ 3 min read Charles D. Katz, a 64-year-old CPA from Sudbury, paid an executive $1.6 million in under-the-table compensation and fringe benefits, while also making a fraudulent application for $179,000 in pandemic relief. This scheme, which took place over several years, allowed Katz to avoid paying taxes and enabled the executive, Stephen Hochberg, to…
Tracey Hernandez, Tax Fraud, Vermont 2023
Burlington, NC – Tracey Hernandez, 39, will spend the next two years and one month in federal prison for running a brazen tax fraud scheme that bilked the IRS out of over $2.1 million. The sentence, handed down today in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, marks the culmination of a…
