In The Embezzlement News: NonProfits, Bookkeepers & Tax Preparers

We have handpicked another round of a few dumbfounding DOJ fraud cases involving nonprofits, bookkeepers and tax preparers! Join us as we explore some of the interesting details of these cases and it will be quickly apparent how these cases caught our attention.

Episode Highlights

• Update: Home Health Care Owners sentenced
• Another scam targeting seniors
• Previously convicted bookkeeper has embezzled again
• Trusted nonProfit director charged with embezzlement
• Nationwide tax fraud thief charged
• Beware of the tax preparer that encourages fraudulent returns

Quotes:

“I never feel the sentences are strong enough to match the level of dishonesty that is needed to commit this kind of fraud.”

“We cannot stress enough the importance of background checks. This case is proof of the necessity.”

“According to the DOJ, quite a significant number of the tax returns contained fabricated business expenses, household help income, business losses and /or falsely claimed education credits and fuel excise tax credits that they were not entitled to.”

“Remember, it is not the tax preparer who is ultimately responsible for the tax returns.”

“Their lines (tax auditors) and code interpretations may be different and you want a CPA that respects, not prepares you for, the guillotine.”

“The one thing they all have in common is that they THINK they will never be caught.”

Press Release Links

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/home-health-care-company-owners-sentenced-67-million-health-care-fraud

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-defendants-grandparent-scam-network-sentenced-rico-conspiracy-targeting-elderly-americans

https://www.actionnewsnow.com/news/crime/suspect-in-embezzlement-case-was-convicted-of-grand-theft-in-2017/article_fe41f8e8-400e-11ed-8612-4bc51cdf89fc.html

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/former-santa-rosa-nonprofit-director-suspected-of-embezzlement/

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/florida-woman-sentenced-prison-her-role-nationwide-tax-fraud-scheme

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-seeks-shut-down-texas-tax-preparer

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