Man Sentenced to Prison for $100 Million Tax Fraud in Florida

25 year old Andy Cherrelus is the fourth man from Florida to go to prison for being involved in a $100 million tax fraud case which state prosecutors are calling the biggest tax fraud case in the history of the nation, as reported by ABC News. 

Well the biggest tax fraud case ever could have been the Obamacare’s website. That cost about $600 million and did not even work and it was past based on lies and threats.

Cherrelus is one among several involved and for his role in the crime, he was handed a sentence which sends him to eight years in prison. The charges against him included fraud and identity theft among others. Only a day prior to Cherrelus’s sentencing, three other men who were convicted in the $100 million case were also sentenced to prison.

A fifth suspect, Harlan Decoste, who is allegedly the ring leader and master mind behind the whole scheme, has been scheduled for his hearing on Wednesday. If convicted, tax lawyers say he may be looking at over a decade or more in prison time alone.

Florida Tax Fraudsters had Succeeded in Collecting $28.2 Million by Filing Frivolous Tax Returns 

The fraudsters operated out of an unsusceptible quiet suburban house based in Miramar in Southern Broward County. According to investigators and the Internal Revenue System, the group used a total of ten laptop computers in order to steal the identities of over 29,000 people and then used this information to file fraudulent tax refunds which they could collect for themselves. They were busy!

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Together and moreover, the group and their operations were able to siphon as much as $28.2 million in actual refunds between July of 2011 and May of 2013. They were only found out after a home invasion robbery in May 2013 led law enforcement officers to piles of cash money, exorbitant jewelry, expensive apparel and accessories, drugs and computers which housed stolen identities of nearly thirty thousand American citizens.

One of them must have been talking to the wrong people which led to the home invasion. 

The suspected ring leader, Harlan Decoste, is a 27 year old that went by the street name Money King. According to investigators, Decoste opened up a Rap Music Company called GroundUp111 in order to cover up and explain the profits siphoned through the tax fraud operations. He could get a maximum sentence of up to 29 years in prison for the fraud, say tax attorneys.

Former Traffic Court Judge to Serve 10 Months in Prison for Tax Fraud

Michael J. Sullivan a former traffic court judge was handed a ten month prison sentence for a federal tax fraud charge. Sullivan and his tax lawyer employed a rather unique defense strategy which went along the lines of “come on, really??” Hilarious!

According to philly.com, the former judge did accept to paying the staff of his family bar in South Philadelphia in cash under the table and also did not report $48,089 in payroll taxes over a period of eleven years, but he felt that this definitely should not be prosecutorial priority in a society where serious violent crime and public corruption thrived. Not quite an impressive defense!

If you need help with your taxes, audits, liens, or any other issues with the IRS, it would be prudent to contact a tax lawyer as soon as possible to make sure you are properly defended in court.