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Alicia Washington aka Alicia Keith, 41, and others obtained electronic filing identification numbers (EFINs) in the names of several tax return preparation businesses and used them to file fraudulent tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). To prepare these returns, Washington used stolen IDs belonging to individuals who had been arrested or jailed. Washington […]

In its complaint, the government alleged that Billy Philippe of Broward County, Florida prepared fraudulent tax returns for his customers. The court found that, for purposes of entering an injunction only, Philippe engaged in tax return preparer conduct subject to penalty under the tax laws. Philippe agreed to the civil injunction order entered against him, […]

According to documents filed with the court, Lourdes Ramirez, a Mexico national unlawfully residing in the United States, operated TX ASAP Tax Services and Fiesta Tax Service located in Greenville, Texas. From 2011 through 2014, Ramirez prepared approximately 1,163 federal tax returns that included fraudulent business income, losses, credits and deductions and sought refunds to […]

A Kansas City, Kansas return preparer was sentenced to serve 27 months in prison today, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Thomas Beall for the District of Kansas. According to documents filed with the court, Antoine Dorsey owned and operated Day-1 Tax Service, […]

A Washington, D.C. return preparer pleaded guilty to preparing fraudulent tax returns, announced the Justice Department’s Tax Division. According to documents filed with the court, Joann Little, 60, of Suitland, Maryland, worked as a return preparer in Washington D.C., at a tax preparation business formerly known as Instant Tax Service and more recently named Speedy […]

Alaine GriffinContact Reporter NEW HAVEN — In the same courtroom where a judge in 2007 sentenced him to 38 years in prison for a murder he said he did not commit, Bobby Johnson won his freedom Friday surrounded by the family members and lawyers who always believed he was innocent. “I will enter a dismissal […]

Bobby Johnson following his release from prison, Friday, Sept. 4, 2015. NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A man who spent nine years in prison for a 2006 killing that his supporters say he was coerced into confessing to as a teenager with a low IQ was set free Friday after a judge vacated his murder conviction at […]

By Esteban L. Hernandez, New Haven Register Bobby Johnson, center, holds his sister, Halo Nelson, 2, after speaking to the press outside Superior Court in New Haven Friday.Arnold Gold — New Haven Register NEW HAVEN >> Bobby Johnson made the five-second walk out of Superior Court Friday with the help of the same folks who helped […]

Bobby Johnson was released from prison on Friday after nine years served for a crime he did not commit. Johnson was coerced into confessing and pleading guilty to murder when he was just 16. Records show that his IQ was below the mental impairment line. By Tracy Hughey | Sep 06, 2015 10:32 AM EDT Bobby Johnson […]

THOMAS MACMILLAN PHOTO Angela Johnson with photo of Bobby Johnson outside a 2012 hearing. Another African-American New Haven man railroaded by corrupt cops is set to walk free after years languishing in prison. This man’s name is Bobby Johnson. New Haven police charged Johnson, when he was 16, with killing 70-year-old Herbert Fields in Newhallville […]