From the USDOJ press release:
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that four more defendants have been sentenced in federal court for their roles in a multi-million dollar conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service. The wire fraud scheme involved stealing the identities of hundreds of victims, primarily nursing home residents, which were used to seek more than $15 million in fraudulent federal tax refunds.
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All four defendants pleaded guilty to their roles in a conspiracy to steal identity information (including Social Security numbers), predominantly from elderly nursing home patients, and use it to file more than 540 fraudulent federal tax returns using the names of more than 500 identity theft victims. Conspirators filed up to six state tax returns simultaneously with each federal return, causing a loss to at least 27 states.
In total, conspirators claimed over $15 million in tax refunds in the names of identity theft victims, and they actually received at least $2.3 million in fraudulent refunds.
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Wavinya worked as a tax preparer and as a certified radiology technician for a company that visited patients on-site at multiple nursing homes in the Kansas City area. In the course of her employment, she had access to patient identity information that was later used in the conspiracy. She also recruited other employees of health care facilities to steal identity information from patients. While executing search warrants at Wavinya’s residence and a storage unit, law enforcement officers discovered patient information from area health care providers containing hundreds of patients’ names and identity information. Wavinya possessed dozens of identity documents (including several notebooks filed with page after page of names, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth), hundreds of medical records with identity theft victims’ personal information, and information concerning dozens of financial accounts. In Wavinya’s purse at the time of her arrest, she had 23 debit, credit and cash storage cards in other people’s names; she had 75 more cards in her car.
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