A Brooklyn, New York, man was sentenced to 48 months in
prison for conspiring to defraud the government and theft of public funds,
announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of
the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
According to documents filed with the court, Akim Martin,
also known as Akim Davis, conspired with others to file fraudulent tax returns
for companies and individual taxpayers.
As part of the scheme, from March 2009 through March 2013, Martin and
his co-conspirators filed false tax returns in the names of businesses they
purportedly owned and operated, claiming phony deductions for wages paid to
employees that purportedly worked for the fake companies. Martin negotiated fraudulently obtained
federal refund checks and spent the money on his personal expenses. Martin’s conduct resulted in a tax loss of
over $550,000.
In addition to the term of imprisonment imposed, U.S.
District Judge Carol Bagley Amon ordered Martin to serve 3 years of supervised
release, forfeit $82,600, and to pay restitution of $544,325 to the IRS.
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Zuckerman
commended special agents of IRS-Criminal Investigation, who conducted the
investigation, and Trial Attorneys Jason Scheff and Ann M. Cherry of the Tax
Division, who prosecuted the case.
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