The Brief
- David Hunt, his twin sons and the sons’ half-brother were convicted of a multimillion-dollar tax refund fraud scheme by a jury in Fort Worth, Texas.
- Prosecutors say the family tried to steal $8.5 million in tax refunds by filing falsified tax returns in the names of purported trusts they controlled.
- The family received more than $1.7 million from the IRS based on the false tax returns, prosecutors say.
ARLINGTON, Texas – Members of an Arlington family were convicted by a jury in Forth Worth on Thursday of a multimillion-dollar scheme to steal tax refunds.
What we know:
According to federal prosecutors, David Hunt, his twin sons Brandon and Baylon Hunt and the sons’ half-brother Corey Burt, of Long Beach, Mississippi, ran a scheme to file falsified tax returns in the names of purported trusts they controlled. They sought $8.5 million in tax refunds to which they were not entitled. …