Daiwor Woah-Tee ran a tax preparation business in Belcamp, Maryland for nearly seven years. Federal prosecutors say what he actually ran was a pipeline that turned other people's identities into refund checks and pandemic unemployment benefits, $4 million worth, before the pipeline finally showed.
Tamara King and Paul Waln sold 22 Seattle investors a West Seattle apartment deal called Halcyon. When the ten years were up, the money was gone and the excuse was a lie about a sick contractor.
Tina Louise Yager prepared taxes at a Jackson-Hewitt in Republic, Missouri. Federal prosecutors say she filed returns her clients never authorized and routed the refunds to herself. The total was small. The mechanism was not.
A Belleville tax preparer admitted in federal court this week to filing hundreds of false returns, hiding six figures of her own income while inflating her clients' deductions. The clients who trusted her with their most private numbers may now owe the government money they were told they had already handled.