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Three El Paso, Texas, residents were sentenced to prison for preparing and conspiring to prepare false income tax returns, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Richard L. Durbin Jr. for the Western District of Texas.

Rose M. Chazulle, a tax return preparer in Miami has prepared fraudulent federal tax returns that claim education and fuel credits to which her clients are not entitled, according to a civil lawsuit filed by the Justice Department, on April 18. The suit seeks to bar Chazulle and her company, RMC Professional Services Corporation, from preparing federal tax returns for others.

A Broward County, Florida, man prepares fraudulent tax returns and should be barred from preparing federal tax returns for others, according to a civil complaint filed by the Justice Department on April 18.

A criminal defense attorney, who operated a law practice in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday was sentenced to 14 months in prison following his guilty plea in June 2014 to three counts of willful failure to file income tax returns, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.

The owners of a tax preparation business that filed fraudulent tax returns on behalf of inmates at various New Jersey prisons were each sentenced to multi-year prison sentences, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman for the District of New Jersey, on April 15 .

A Lawrence, Massachusetts, on Friday resident pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, 14 counts of conversion of government property, two counts of access device fraud and 14 counts of aggravated identity theft, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz for the District of Massachusetts, Special Agent in Charge Joel Garland of the Internal Revenue Service–Criminal Investigation’s (IRS-CI) Boston Field Office and Special Agent in Charge Stephen A. Marks of the U.S. Secret Service

U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced on April 15 that two Dallas men have been charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud in connection with a Denton County highway expansion project in the Eastern District of Texas.

A federal grand jury returned an indictment April 12 charging a District of Columbia tax return preparer with 35 counts of aiding in the preparation of false tax returns, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.

Three tax return preparers based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, were sentenced to prison on Wednesday for their involvement with a fraudulent return-preparation business with multiple storefronts in the Minneapolis area, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.

A former Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officer and resident of Glenarden, Maryland, Thursday was sentenced to 11 months in prison after a federal jury in the District of Columbia convicted him in October 2015 of corruptly endeavoring to impair and impede the due administration of the internal revenue laws, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.