WASHINGTON, May 20 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:
LAS VEGAS - A Mexican national was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for operating a scheme in which he claimed to be an IRS officer and misrepresented to victims that he was able to obtain hundreds of thousands of dollars for them from a fictitious IRS program. The government recommended a sentence of 96 months in prison.
"The defendant pretended to be an IRS agent and preyed on victims - many of whom were non-native English speakers - who struggled to pay their home mortgages," said First Assistant United States Attorney Sigal Chattah for the District of Nevada. "He exploited his victims' fi...