A former resident of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana was
sentenced today to 50 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the United
States, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E.
Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Peter G.
Strasser of the Eastern District of Louisiana.
According to court documents, Aaron Daniels conspired with
others to defraud the United States by submitting false tax returns that
requested fraudulent tax refunds.
Daniels obtained the names and social security numbers of people he was
incarcerated with in the East Carroll Detention Center and provided that
information to his co-conspirators to use to file false tax returns. In
exchange for providing names and social security numbers, Daniels was paid by
his co-conspirators.
In addition to the term of imprisonment imposed, the court
ordered Daniels to serve three years of supervised release, and pay $11,584 in
restitution to the IRS.
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Zuckerman and
U.S. Attorney Strasser commended special agents of IRS-Criminal Investigation,
who investigated the case, and Trial Attorney Lauren Castaldi of the Tax
Division and Assistant U.S. Attorney Hayden Brockett, who prosecuted the case.
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