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Tax Attorneys and Insurance Agent Indicted for Promoting and Selling Fraudulent Tax Shelter | OPA
A federal grand jury in Charlotte, North Carolina returned an indictment today charging two tax attorneys and an insurance agent with conspiring to defraud the United States and encouraging consumers file bogus tax returns based on their advertising and operation of a fraudulent tax shelter. According to the indictment, from 2011 to the existing Michael Elliott Kohn and Catherine Elizabeth Chollet, equally lawyers and citizens of St. Louis, Missouri, and David Shane Simmons, a certified coverage agent and broker dependent out of Jefferson, North Carolina, conspired to defraud the United States by marketing, advertising and marketing, and advertising to customers a fraudulent tax scheme known as the Obtain Elimination Strategy…
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Dallas Attorney and Members of Accounting Firm Charged with Promoting Illegal Tax Shelter | OPA
A superseding indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in Dallas today charging a Texas law firm and three co-conspirators with wire fraud, conspiracy to dedicate wire fraud, serving to their purchasers file phony tax returns, and conspiracy to defraud the United States, all primarily based on an illegal tax shelter they promoted and aided apply. Joseph Garza, of Dallas, was earlier charged on Oct. 18. The superseding indictment adds prices towards 3 tax gurus, Kevin McDonnell, James Richardson and Craig Fenton. In accordance to the authentic indictment, from approximately 2012 to 2021 Garza promoted a tax shelter that allowed higher-earnings clientele to declare fraudulent tax deductions that decreased…
