tax preparer

Taxes April 17, 2026 

Jessie Badillo and Manuel Badillo Jr. repeatedly doctored tax filings to gin up returns, prosecutors argue.

Taxes April 15, 2026 

New Jersey tax preparer Leon Haynes ran what prosecutors called the largest COVID-19 tax relief fraud case ever tried in the U.S.

Taxes April 15, 2026 

Diana Miller-Lloyd, 45, of Port Orange, FL, who was convicted of preparing false tax returns while running a Connecticut-based tax preparation business, was sentenced Tuesday to a year and six months in prison.

Taxes April 9, 2026 

Leon Haynes, 52, of Teaneck, NJ, convicted in what prosecutors called the nation’s largest COVID‑19 tax relief fraud case, was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years in prison.

Taxes March 25, 2026 

Dormeshia A. Haire, 38, of St. Charles, MO, who worked in St. Clair County in Illinois as a tax preparer, is accused of making false statements on tax return forms to defraud the federal government.

Taxes March 23, 2026 

Artebia Hobbs, 47, who played an integral role in a scheme to funnel nearly $2 million in pandemic relief funds to businesses in Roanoke, VA—most of which didn’t exist—was sentenced March 16 to two years in prison.

Taxes March 11, 2026 

Before Jessenia Cordero finished serving her prison term for a $4.3 million in a tax fraud scheme, the wheels were in motion for her next scheme, federal authorities allege in court records.

Taxes March 10, 2026 

Sharhabeel Shreiteh of Crete, IL, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Tuesday in a massive, $14 million fraud scheme where he collected kickbacks for filing more than 1,500 bogus loan applications at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.