WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:
PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that Manoach Chayaud, 43, of Carmel, Indiana, was convicted today at trial of a years-long conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS").
The defendant was charged by indictment in December 2024, arising from a scheme that ran from approximately November 2013 through February 2022, in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
As proven at trial, Chayaud recruited two individuals to assist him in a scheme to file false tax returns on behalf of clients of his tax preparation business, setting up an office in Indian...