Tag: Tax Fraud
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…
Amanda Wilkerson, Tax Fraud, Louisiana 2026
⏱ 2 min read Amanda Wilkerson, a 57-year-old woman from Marrero, Louisiana, pleaded guilty to tax fraud and PPP loan fraud on April 21, 2026. Wilkerson, who owned and operated Divine Purpose Home Care LLC, a home healthcare business, withheld taxes from her employees’ paychecks but failed to report and remit them to the IRS.…
Roderic Sage, Tax Fraud, New York 2008
⏱ 2 min read Roderic Sage, a UK executive, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States by helping high-value US taxpayer-clients conceal over $60 million in income and assets held in undeclared, offshore bank accounts. The scheme, which lasted from 2008 to 2014, involved using layers of nominee accounts and offshore entities…
David Gebhardt, Tax Fraud, Tennessee 2022
⏱ 2 min read Brentwood attorney David Gebhardt, 54, has pleaded guilty to filing false tax returns, concealing millions of dollars in income from cryptocurrency sales and his consulting business in Tennessee. From March 2018 through December 2022, Gebhardt withdrew approximately $6.6 million in funds from his cryptocurrency sales, but failed to report this income…
Lawrence Okeyo, Tax Fraud, Maine 2025
⏱ 2 min read Lawrence Okeyo, a 48-year-old professional tax return preparer from South Portland, was sentenced to two years in prison for preparing false tax returns for his clients and himself in Portland, Maine. On October 29, 2025, Okeyo was convicted following a three-day jury trial. He falsified tax returns by claiming bogus expenses,…
