A resident of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, and the owner of two automotive businesses pleaded guilty today for his involvement in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite Jr. of the Eastern District of Louisiana. Martin Jackson…
Month: July 2015
GA: Three Sentenced to Federal Prison for Filing Fraudulent Income Tax Returns
ATLANTA – Three members of a local fraud ring—Rodney Henry, Tony Lamar Watkins, and Phyllis Grant—have been sentenced to federal prison for conspiring to defraud the United States by filing bogus income tax returns using stolen identities. The trio stole more than $800,000, all in the form of fraudulent tax refunds. “Phony refund schemes that…
CA: Prison Tax Fraud Ringleader Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Edwin Ludwig IV, 34, currently an inmate in an Oklahoma state prison, was sentenced today to seven years in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States and for filing false claims for federal tax refunds, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Ludwig was ordered to pay over $219,000 in restitution….
LA: Former Systems Administrator Charged With Intentionally Damaging Computers
July 1 – United States Attorney Walt Green announced that former Georgia-Pacific IT specialist and systems administrator BRIAN P. JOHNSON, age 43, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was arrested this morning after his indictment last week by a federal grand jury for intentionally damaging protected computers. The indictment charges that, from February 14, 2014 through February…
Ex-clerk arrested in Worth County Magistrate Court information leak
Jim West reports: The Georgia Bureau of Investigation officials say former Worth County Magistrate Court clerk Tammy Hall Powell, 54, of Sylvester has been charged with obstruction-hindering law enforcement and violation of oath of office. According to the GBI, Powell, who resigned in June, provided confidential information about a search warrant to William Neal Gay,…
TX: Houston Zoo also impacted by Services Systems Associates breach
The Houston Chronicle reports that the Houston Zoo’s gift shop customers may be impacted by a vendor’s breach that also affected customers at the Detroit Zoo’s gift shop: Houston Zoo officials said on Thursday they discovered a “security breach” involving credit cards at their gift shops. A zoo spokeswoman said the breach was contained to two…