This sistah here threw away a career at friggin' BellSouth, FOR A DAMN CAR!
Talk about stupid!
Oh well; ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST!
AJC link & Article:
http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/stories/2007/09/26/refund_0927.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab
Article Text:
Union City woman gets prison in tax refund scheme
By SAEED AHMED
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 09/26/07
A Union City woman was sentenced Wednesday to two and a half years in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $220,000 in fines for helping others file false tax returns.
Prosecutors said that for two years, beginning in 2002, Marla Nicole Wells, 38, concocted an elaborate scheme to defraud the Internal Revenue Service. According to U.S. Attorney David Nahmias, Wells paid a small fee to recruiters to find people who were willing to file false claims for income tax refunds.
The "filers" were often people with very little income. Wells provided the filer with a fake W-2, which listed employers that the filer had never actually worked for. In some cases, Wells even listed her own full-time employer, BellSouth, Nahmias said.
She would have the filers seek refund anticipation loans, often accompanying them to the bank herself or withholding their identification until they returned to her with the money.
She did so, prosecutors said, because she kept a portion of the refund — sometimes as much as half of it. Wells used some of the money to buy herself a Mercedes, Nahmias said.
All told, Wells was able to obtain $222,597 in refunds. That's the amount a U.S. District judge has now ordered Wells to repay.
She also filed claims for an additional $60,000 in refunds, but the scheme was uncovered before the IRS paid the money.
Talk about stupid!
Oh well; ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST!
AJC link & Article:
http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/stories/2007/09/26/refund_0927.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab
Article Text:
Union City woman gets prison in tax refund scheme
By SAEED AHMED
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 09/26/07
A Union City woman was sentenced Wednesday to two and a half years in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $220,000 in fines for helping others file false tax returns.
Prosecutors said that for two years, beginning in 2002, Marla Nicole Wells, 38, concocted an elaborate scheme to defraud the Internal Revenue Service. According to U.S. Attorney David Nahmias, Wells paid a small fee to recruiters to find people who were willing to file false claims for income tax refunds.
The "filers" were often people with very little income. Wells provided the filer with a fake W-2, which listed employers that the filer had never actually worked for. In some cases, Wells even listed her own full-time employer, BellSouth, Nahmias said.
She would have the filers seek refund anticipation loans, often accompanying them to the bank herself or withholding their identification until they returned to her with the money.
She did so, prosecutors said, because she kept a portion of the refund — sometimes as much as half of it. Wells used some of the money to buy herself a Mercedes, Nahmias said.
All told, Wells was able to obtain $222,597 in refunds. That's the amount a U.S. District judge has now ordered Wells to repay.
She also filed claims for an additional $60,000 in refunds, but the scheme was uncovered before the IRS paid the money.
