An indictment was unsealed yesterday charging an Alabama man
with multiple tax-related crimes, including one count of conspiracy to defraud
the United States, three counts of wire fraud, four counts of stealing U.S.
Treasury funds and four counts of aggravated identity theft, announced Acting
Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Department of Justice’s
Tax Division and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. of the Middle District of
Alabama.
According to the allegations in the indictment, returned by
a federal grand jury sitting in Montgomery, Alabama, Tavarious Jackson, of
Montgomery County, Alabama, along with several co-conspirators, used stolen
personal identification information to prepare and file false federal income
tax returns. From about February 2011
through April 2013, the conspirators filed more than 500 false returns that
fraudulently claimed more than $1 million in tax refunds.
If convicted, Jackson faces a statutory maximum sentence of
10 years in prison for conspiracy, 20 years in prison for each count of wire
fraud, 10 years in prison for each count of stealing government funds and a
mandatory minimum sentence of two years in prison for aggravated identity
theft. Jackson also faces substantial
monetary penalties and restitution.
Acting Assistant Attorney General Ciraolo and U.S. Attorney
Beck Jr. commended special agents of IRS-Criminal Investigation, who
investigated the case, and Trial Attorneys Gregory Bailey and Robert Boudreau
of the Tax Division and Assistant U. S. Attorney Jonathan Ross of the Middle
District of Alabama, who are prosecuting this case.
An indictment merely alleges that crimes have been
committed. The defendant is presumed
innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
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