HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – A federal jury has convicted a Hawaii couple for their roles in a nationwide tax fraud scheme.
The scheme involved deceiving the IRS into issuing a nearly $200,000 tax refund, then using shell bank accounts and frivolous legal filings to prevent the government from recovering it.
“The defendants made a deliberate choice to participate in a criminal conspiracy — they paid for false documents, fraudulently claimed an enormous tax refund and then spent years obstructing the IRS’s efforts to get it back,” said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division…