TAMPA, Florida — Jeffrey Dixon has been sentenced to four years and nine months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aiding in the filing of false tax returns.
Dixon, who pleaded guilty on August 5, 2025, was also ordered to forfeit $1,093,552.50, the proceeds of his criminal activities, and to pay $12,964,382.00 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), according to a press release from the United States Attorney’s Office. The fraudulent scheme, which ran from January 2019 through July 2023, involved Dixon preparing or assisting in the preparation of 458 false tax returns for 319 taxpayers, including himself, for tax years 2018 through 2022.
The tax returns contained falsified Schedules A and 1, as well as fraudulent Forms W-2G, with fabricated figures for gambling winnings and losses, and federal tax withholding amounts. The false returns requested substantial refunds from the IRS that the taxpayers were not legally entitled to receive, stated the press release…