WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:
LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas man was sentenced today to 38 months in prison and ordered to pay $1,052,378 in restitution for conspiring to defraud the United States by filing false tax returns with the IRS and diverting portions of the resulting tax refunds to himself and his codefendant.
"This office has zero tolerance for corrupt tax professionals who treat the U.S. Treasury like their personal slush fund and prey on innocent taxpayers," said First Assistant United States Attorney Sigal Chattah for the District of Nevada. "The defendant abused a position of trust to orchestrate a brazen, multi-millio...