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Article: Government Files Seven Lawsuits Nationwide to Block Alleged Scheme Involving Fraudulent Tax-Refund Claims.
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- Economics Week
- Article date:
- November 13, 2009
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The United States this week has filed civil injunction lawsuits across the country against seven individuals, the Justice Department announced. The federal suits - filed in Los Angeles; Panama City, Fla.; Salt Lake City; Nashville, Tenn.; and Pocatello, Idaho - allege that the defendants promote a tax fraud scheme designed to siphon hundreds of millions of dollars from the U.S. Treasury through fraudulent tax refund claims.
Papers filed in the cases say the defendants prepared tax returns requesting a total of $562.4 million in bogus refunds. One defendant - Dick Jenkins, of Heber City, Utah - allegedly holds himself out as a CPA and requested a $210 million ...