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Tax preparer gets 5 years for bogus returns
Posted: Oct 16, 2012 7:51 AM by Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Southern California tax preparer has been sentenced to five years in prison for filing hundreds of bogus income tax returns.
Federal prosecutors say 61-year-old Ernesto Jesus Suarez of Orange met with clients and prepared accurate income tax returns on his laptop computer.
He then wrote refund checks from his personal bank account and gave them to his clients.
But Suarez would add bogus expenses and deductions to boost the refund amount and he directed the Internal Revenue Service to send the refunds to 29 bank accounts he controlled.
City News Service says Suarez fraudulently obtained $1.4 million.
Suarez pleaded guilty and he was sentenced in Los Angeles on Monday to five years in federal prison. He must also pay $753,000 in restitution.
(Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
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