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Tax Fraud Blotter: Sick excuses

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Bangor, Maine: Paul Archer, a Florida resident formerly of Hampden and Orrington, Maine, has pleaded guilty to attempting to evade federal taxes and engaging in fraudulent transfers and concealment in a bankruptcy proceeding.

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Prep perps

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Sirleaf, who previously pleaded guilty, was the sole owner and operator of Metro Financial Services; he prepared false and fraudulent 1040s for clients for at least tax years 2016 through 2019. He also filed false returns for himself for tax years 2017 through 2019, failing to fully report his income.

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Negative waves

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In total, Mellinger and his co-conspirators helped clients prepare returns that claimed more than $106 million in false deductions, causing a tax loss to the IRS of some $37 million. In January 2016, Mellinger learned that several of his clients were under investigation and that the United States had started seizing their funds.

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Boundless energy

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Gibson initially prepared an appropriate return from which the agent would have owed taxes. During the 2016 through 2022 tax years, Gibson prepared at least 135 returns containing fraudulent information, causing a loss to the IRS of at least $125,197, which Gibson has agreed to pay in restitution.

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Who ya gonna call?

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Barr, who pleaded guilty in February, owned the tax prep business Maxi Tax Resource. She prepared false returns for at least 14 clients between 2016 and 2020, including false Schedule C losses for fabricated businesses, as well as false itemized deductions and standard deductions. Her conduct cost the IRS more than $300,000.

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Auditors with unusual names deviated from rules, study finds

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They analyzed filings from nearly 3,000 public companies from 2016-2020.

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Tax Fraud Blotter: No solution

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government, including to the Department of Defense during contract negotiations in 2010 and 2011, to the IRS in a 2016 application to the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program and to the Justice Department in a 2018. To continue the scheme, Edelman lied about Mina/Red Stars ownership to other arms of the U.S.

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