Two Convicted of $2.2 Million Tax Fraud Scheme Will Be Sentenced in July

Maryland

A federal jury convicted Sandra Denise Curl of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Percy Leroy Jacobs of Prince Frederick, Maryland on Monday for conspiring to file false tax returns, and theft of government funds, officials announced.

 In total, the defendants attempted to defraud the IRS of more than $2.2 million, according to federal authorities. 

U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel scheduled sentencing for both defendants on July 7.

According to evidence, between 2013 and 2016, Curl and Jacobs filed tax returns on behalf of multiple fraudulent trusts they owned, seeking refunds to which they were not entitled.  

Curl and Jacobs also filed false individual tax returns in their own names, claiming fictitious false tax withholdings in order to generate refunds. 

Curl and Jacobs face a maximum penalty of five years in prison for conspiracy to defraud the United States, three years in prison for each count of aiding and assisting the filing of a false tax return, and ten years in prison for theft of government property.