Wetumpka woman sentenced for identity theft and tax fraud
Article from Montgomery Advertiser:
The owner of a tax preparation business was sentenced Thursday to 184 months in prison, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service announced.
Owner Marsha Elmore of Wetumpka used her business, Community Tax, to run a scheme to steal tax refunds by filing false tax returns with stolen identities, according to a release from the Department of Justice.
Elmore had been indicted by a federal grand jury on Aug. 31, 2011 and pleaded guilty on Nov. 15, 2011 to one count each of filing false claims, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Elmore had previously been sentenced to 60 months in prison for a violation of supervised release, which was based on the conduct for which Elmore was sentenced Thursday.
The sentence of 184 months is to run consecutively to her previous sentence of 60 months.
Elmore’s fraudulent activity ran from at least 2009 until July 2011, when she was arrested by the IRS on a criminal complaint. She unlawfully obtained the names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth of various individuals and used them to file false tax returns through Community Tax, according to the release.
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