tax fraud
Pollock Pines woman sentenced to 10 years after $9M tax fraud scheme
Submitted by paula on Wed, 04/26/2017 - 12:27pm
Teresa Marty will be spending the next ten years in prison after causing the IRS to pay more than $9 million in false refunds.
The 57-year-old Pollock Pines woman owned Advanced Financial Services (AFS), a tax return preparation business located in Placerville. She conspired with her office manager, Pamela Harris and Rebecca Bandera-Marty to file more than 250 fraudulent federal tax returns claiming more than $60 million in refunds.
El Dorado Hills tax preparers headed to jail for $1.8 million in fake claims
Submitted by paula on Fri, 12/02/2016 - 6:59pm
An unlicensed El Dorado county tax preparer was sentenced Friday to 3 1/2 years in prison and ordered to pay $1,895,833 in restitution for conspiring to file false claims and filing false claims. Her co-conspirator will be sentenced next week.
Barbara Antonucci, 49, and her co-conspirator, Sherry Taggart, 56, of El Dorado Hills, prepared tax returns for clients seeking to maximize their refunds from the Internal Revenue Service.
Placerville business owner pleads guilty to filing more than $60 million in tax refunds
Submitted by paula on Wed, 08/31/2016 - 6:06pm
The owner of Advanced Financial Services (AFS) in Placerville pleaded guilty to filing more than 250 false claims for refunds from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) along with two of her employees. They all face large fines and years in jail.
Susanville inmates found guilty of filing 247 false income tax returns
Submitted by paula on Fri, 08/19/2016 - 11:57am
Daniel Allen Coats, 34, of Turlock, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay $8,938 in restitution for his role in a conspiracy to defraud the United States by filing false claims for federal tax refunds while in prison.
El Dorado County women indicted in nationwide $60 million tax fraud refund scheme
Submitted by Editor on Tue, 06/25/2013 - 10:25pmIn an indictment unsealed Tuesday, three El Dorado County women — Teresa Marie Marty, of Pollock Pines, Rebecca Bandera-Marty of Shingle Springs, and Pamela Harris of Placerville — were charged with conspiring to defraud the United States, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service announced.
In addition to the conspiracy count, Marty is charged with 33 counts of false claims against the United States, and Bandera-Marty is also charged in 16 of these counts.
