Tax Fraud Blotter: Negative waves
Accounting Today
JUNE 19, 2025
In January 2016, Mellinger learned that several of his clients were under investigation and that the United States had started seizing their funds. 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.
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