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WASHINGTON D.C.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A California man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiring with others in schemes to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

PPP is a federal loans initiative designed to help businesses pay their employees and meet expenses during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to court documents and statements, Quin Ngoc Rudin, 55, a convicted felon, was the Secretary, Director, and Chief Financial Officer of Mana Tax Services, a tax preparation business in the Los Angeles area. <\/span><\/p>\n

Rudin engaged in a conspiracy to commit two fraud schemes using Mana Tax while on supervised release.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"First, Rudin conspired with his brother, Thanh Rudin, 59, of Rosemead, California, as well as Seir Havana, 46, of North Hollywood, California, and others to prepare and file with the IRS a series of false income tax returns on behalf of at least nine professional athletes. <\/span><\/p>\n

The false tax returns reported fictitious business and personal losses to generate refunds the athletes were not entitled to receive.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rudin also filed amended tax returns for most of the athletes for prior years to correct what he falsely characterized as \u201cerrors\u201d made by their previous accountants. Mana Tax charged the athletes a fee of 30% of the resulting refunds issued by the IRS. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Rudin\u2019s tax fraud scheme caused a total tax loss of more than $19 million.<\/span><\/p>\n

Second, Rudin and his co-conspirators, including Milton Estrada, 49, of Fullerton, California, at Mana Tax also prepared and submitted false applications for PPP loans on behalf of small businesses, shell companies, and other business entities they controlled. <\/span><\/p>\n

Rudin and his co-conspirators prepared fraudulent PPP loan applications for these firms in exchange for a fee of 30% of the resulting loan. <\/span><\/p>\n

The co-conspirators submitted fabricated tax returns to support the PPP loan applications, and some of the business owners never saw their loan applications before Mana Tax filed them. <\/span><\/p>\n

To conceal the 30% fee from the government, Rudin and his co-conspirators directed the businesses to pay the co-conspirators with cashier\u2019s checks and to note on the memo lines that the checks were related to payroll. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"To obtain fraudulent PPP loans on behalf of shell companies and other business entities they controlled, Rudin and the co-conspirators grossly inflated the number of employees, and monthly payroll costs claimed on the applications. <\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the businesses were not eligible for any PPP loan funds at all because they did not have any payroll expenses. <\/span><\/p>\n

The fraud loss to the U.S. government from the PPP scheme exceeded $43 million.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rudin committed these crimes while he was on supervised release for another fraud scheme in California. <\/span><\/p>\n

He plead guilty on May 13 to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and to commit wire fraud, as well as to one count of wire fraud. <\/span><\/p>\n

Three other co-conspirators, including Rudin\u2019s brother, Thanh Rudin, Seir Havana and Milton Estrada also pleaded guilty as part of this conspiracy. <\/span><\/p>\n

Thanh Rudin and Havana are scheduled to be sentenced on November 9. Milton Estrada is to be sentenced on Dec. 21.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cQuin Ngoc Rudin defrauded the Treasury of tens of millions of dollars by securing grossly inflated tax refunds and fraudulently obtaining COVID relief loans with fabricated tax returns,\u201d said Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department\u2019s Tax Division. \u201cTax preparers should know that whether their clients are professional athletes or the neighbor down the block, they need to do their jobs honestly and professionally, or face the consequences.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHonest taxpayers are fed up with crooks like Quin Rudin who defrauded a government program meant to help those in need to line their pockets while skirting their tax obligations,” said Special Agent in Charge Darrell Waldon of the IRS-Criminal Investigation Washington, D.C. Field Office. <\/span><\/p>\n

Adding, “Rudin and his conspirators devised a scheme to steal from a CARES Act loan program to fund their lifestyles. His actions not only caused negative ramifications to those financially connected to him but also the honest taxpayer when he and his conspirators committed significant tax fraud violations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The United States recovered over $15 million of the fraud proceeds. Rudin\u2019s restitution amount will be ordered at a later date.<\/span><\/p>\n

The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Central District of California and U.S. Small Business Administration assisted with the investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Kimberly M. Shartar and Kimberly R. Pedersen for the Eastern District of Virginia and Assistant Chief David Zisserson of the Tax Division prosecuted the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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