{"id":14384,"date":"2015-08-07T22:59:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T05:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=14384"},"modified":"2015-08-07T23:00:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T06:00:38","slug":"eight-defendants-involved-in-24-million-tax-refund-fraud-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=14384","title":{"rendered":"Eight Defendants Involved in $24 Million Tax Refund Fraud Sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ALABAMA<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IRS1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1709 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IRS1-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"IRS\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IRS1-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IRS1.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a>Eight residents of Alabama and Georgia were sentenced Friday to serve a total of more than 31 years in\u00a0 prison for their involvement in a $24 million stolen identity refund fraud conspiracy, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The fraud involved 9,000 identities stolen from the U.S. Army, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>U.S. District Court Judge Kristi K. DuBose of Alabama imposed the following sentences:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>T<strong>racy Mitchell<\/strong>, of Phenix City, Alabama, was sentenced to serve 13 years and three months in prison.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Talarius Paige<\/strong>, of Phenix City, was sentenced to serve five years in prison<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mequetta Snell-Quick<\/strong>, of Columbus, Georgia, was sentenced to serve two years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Latasha Mitchell,<\/strong> of Phenix City, was sentenced to serve \u00a0three years in prison<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dameisha Mitchell<\/strong>, of Phenix City, was sentenced to serve five years and five months in prison<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sharonda Johnson<\/strong>, of Phenix City, was sentenced to serve two years<\/li>\n<li><strong>Patrice Taylor<\/strong>, of Midland, Georgia, was sentenced to serve 12 months<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cynthia Johnson<\/strong>, of Phenix City, was sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to pay $5,047 in restitution to the IRS.<\/li>\n<li>The sentencing of <strong>Keisha Lanier<\/strong>, of Seale, Alabama, is scheduled on Aug. 24.\u00a0 <strong>Tamaica Hoskins<\/strong>, a co-defendant who was charged in the same indictment, was sentenced on June 25 to serve 145 months in prison. <strong>Tamika Floyd<\/strong>, a defendant in a related case, was sentenced on May 19 to serve 87 months in prison.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThese conspirators abused their access to government and private databases to steal thousands of identities, including those of soldiers deployed in Afghanistan, and filed false tax returns seeking over $20 million in fraudulent refund claims,\u201d said <strong>Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe significant prison sentences and financial penalties imposed today reflect the seriousness of this criminal conduct and send a clear message that those who victimize U.S. citizens and steal from the U.S. Treasury will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to information in court documents, between January 2011 and December 2013, Lanier and Tracy Mitchell led a large-scale identity theft ring in which Lanier, Tracy Mitchell and their co-defendants filed more than 9,000 false individual federal income tax returns that claimed more than $24 million in fraudulent claims for tax refunds.<\/p>\n<p>The IRS paid out close to $10 million in refunds on these fraudulent claims.\u00a0 T<\/p>\n<p>he defendants obtained the stolen identities from various sources, including from the U.S. Army, several Alabama state agencies, a Georgia call center and employee records from a Georgia company.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell worked at the hospital located at Fort Benning, Georgia, where she had access to the identification data of military personnel, including soldiers who were deployed to Afghanistan.\u00a0 She stole the personal information of soldiers and used that information to file false tax returns.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cToday\u2019s sentencing of eight criminals, who used the identities of American service members and hospital patients to enrich themselves by stealing tax refunds, demonstrates the depths of how far criminals will stoop and the extent to which IRS-CI will go to fight identity theft,\u201d said <strong>Chief Richard Weber of IRS-Criminal Investigation<\/strong> \u00a0\u201cWe will use every available resource in collaboration with our law enforcement partners to combat these serious crimes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cToday&#8217;s sentences show our unwavering commitment to aggressively pursue cases of cybercrime and protect the men and women serving our nation,\u201d said <strong>Director Daniel Andrews of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command&#8217;s (CID) Computer Crime Investigative Unit.<\/strong> \u00a0\u201cThese defendants stole personal identities for monetary gain, and their sentences should resonate with would-be criminals that we can, and we will, hold them accountable for their crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are the facts and circumstances surrounding this case:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Floyd stole personal information from two Alabama state agencies and provided those names to Lanier.\u00a0 Lanier provided those names to Tracy Mitchell, Latasha Mitchell, Paige and others to file false tax returns.<\/li>\n<li>Lanier also obtained stolen identities from the Alabama Department of Corrections.\u00a0 Paige and Taylor worked in a call center for a payment-processing company in Columbus and stole identities.<\/li>\n<li>Paige, in turn, used those identities to file false tax returns, some of which he filed from Tracy Mitchell\u2019s 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the financial institutions stopped permitting the defendants to print out the tax refund checks.\u00a0 To continue the scheme, Tracy Mitchell and members of her family recruited U.S. Postal Service employees.<\/li>\n<li>The corrupt postal employees specified addresses along their postal routes to have the U.S. Treasury checks mailed, then obtained those checks and turned them over to the defendants for a fee.<\/li>\n<li>The scheme also involved a complex money laundering operation.<\/li>\n<li>Almost $10 million in fraudulent tax refund checks were cashed at several businesses located in Alabama, Georgia and Kentucky.<\/li>\n<li>To coordinate this massive check cashing scheme, the defendants communicated using text messages and maintained detailed records.\u00a0 For instance, Sharondra Johnson worked at the Walmart money center in Columbus, where she cashed checks for customers as part of her job.<\/li>\n<li>Dameisha Mitchell recruited Sharondra Johnson to cash tax refund checks that were fraudulently issued in the names of other individuals.\u00a0 Sharondra Johnson agreed to cash the checks and communicated with Dameisha and Tracy Mitchell via text messages.<\/li>\n<li>In an attempt to conceal the crime from Walmart, the defendants had multiple individuals deliver the tax refund checks to Johnson for her to cash them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At sentencing, officials said the government offered victim impact statements from several individuals whose identities were stolen, and from companies and governmental agencies where the identity theft breaches occurred.<\/p>\n<p>As one agency representative noted, the identity theft was not only devastating financially, but it also had a chilling effect on their ability to serve the residents of this state, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>A mother of a young U.S. Army soldier who was an identity theft victim described the consequences of the fraud on her and her family, stating:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;While [my son] was fighting for our country and all back home[,] I received a very disturbing phone call from [an] Agent [] from the IRS that my son[,] while at Ft. Benning training to defend our country[,] the land of the free[,] had his identity stolen and fraudulent tax returns were filed with his social security number. \u00a0This news was devastating to think that my [] 19-year-old son[,] who was defending the very freedom this country stands [for] [,] was wronged by one of those people [he] was willing to die for.\u00a0 My whole family could not believe what was happening.\u00a0 We now had to worry about this terrible act by one of our own.\u00a0 As I tried my best to keep composed and handle all of the gruesome mounds of paperwork to get this straightened out with the IRS, [my son] was then denied his tax refund. \u00a0This created a financial hardship on [him].\u00a0 We were too afraid to tell [him] while he was deployed because we did not want to worry him and we wanted him to focus only on getting home alive and not have to worry about such an atrocious act by someone who did not even know [him].&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cNo 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