Tag: Tax Fraud
Lynette Hogue, Tax Fraud, Tennessee 2021
⏱ 2 min read Lynette Hogue, a Memphis woman, has been charged with preparing false tax returns for clients and failing to file her own tax returns between 2021 and 2024. Hogue allegedly prepared and filed false and fraudulent income tax returns for clients of her tax preparation business, generating refunds they were not entitled…
Henry Remington Herod, Tax Fraud, Minnesota 2026
⏱ 2 min read Henry Remington Herod, a 43-year-old man from Minnesota, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his role in a $3 million tax fraud conspiracy. Herod, who was sentenced on July 16, 2026, in St. Paul, conspired with others to defraud the Internal Revenue Service by filing false tax returns claiming…
D’ontrinique K. Johnson, Tax Fraud Conspiracy, Florida 2021
⏱ 2 min read D’ontrinique K. Johnson and Tequilla D. Nairn, two Pensacola tax preparers, pleaded guilty to a slew of federal charges, including tax fraud conspiracy and filing false tax returns. The pair, who worked together at Nairn’s tax return preparation business, First Premium Solutions, scammed the government out of thousands of dollars between…
Thanjavur Manavalan, Tax Return Falsification, Washington 2026
⏱ 2 min read A 65-year-old Bellevue tax preparer, Thanjavur Manavalan, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for falsifying tax returns, cheating the system out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Manavalan, the owner of Mano Accounting Services, falsified charitable contributions, investment proceeds, business losses, and other items on clients’ tax returns. The scheme,…
Latasha L. Frison, Tax Fraud, Missouri 2020
⏱ 2 min read Latasha L. Frison, a 39-year-old former tax preparer from Cahokia, has been convicted of filing false tax returns for her clients in St. Louis, Missouri. Between 2020 and 2023, Frison falsified information on over a dozen tax returns, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in refunds that her clients were…
Jessica Latoya Staten, Tax Fraud, North Carolina 2025
⏱ 2 min read Jessica Latoya Staten, a 41-year-old tax return preparer from Rocky Mount, North Carolina, was sentenced to 2 years in federal prison for running a massive tax scam. Between 2018 and 2025, Staten prepared and filed hundreds of false and fraudulent federal income tax returns, resulting in over $3 million in tax…
Aylesha Maria Allen, Tax Fraud, Alabama 2026
⏱ 3 min read Aylesha Maria Allen, a 42-year-old Mobile woman, has been sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison for filing at least 21 false tax returns, resulting in a tax loss of $371,412. The scheme involved fraudulent Sick and Family Leave Credits related to the COVID-19 pandemic, false Schedule C…
Cameron Summers, Tax Fraud, Wisconsin 2020
⏱ 2 min read Cameron Summers, a Milwaukee tax preparer, has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for filing over 400 false tax returns, claiming fake expenses, credits, and refunds for his clients between 2020 and 2022. Summers worked at a tax preparation business in Milwaukee, using his name and preparer…
Jasmeika Simon, Tax Fraud, Wisconsin 2022
⏱ 2 min read Jasmeika Simon, a Milwaukee woman, has been sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison for running a tax preparation business that filed hundreds of false and fraudulent returns. Between 2022 and 2024, Simon submitted over 300 individual income tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) containing false…
Nancy Maldonado Alvarez, Tax Fraud, Colorado 2026
⏱ 2 min read Nancy Maldonado Alvarez, a 43-year-old Mexican national, has been convicted of running a tax fraud scheme in Denver, Colorado, where she prepared false tax returns for clients, claiming refunds they weren’t entitled to. Alvarez owned and operated a tax preparation business in Denver, using it to fabricate business losses and claim…
