A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted a 68-year-old San Francisco woman on charges of tax evasion and filing false tax returns after prosecutors alleged she failed to report at least $1.5 million in income over several years, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Elsie Eclevia Curameng made her initial appearance in federal court in San Francisco on Tuesday morning after an indictment unsealed the same day accused her of evading taxes on income received between 2019 and 2022, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California.
Federal prosecutors said Curameng worked as an in-home caregiver for a client from at least 2008 through 2022 and helped manage the client’s finances, including issuing payments to herself and other caregivers. Between 2019 and 2022, she received hundreds of checks totaling more than $2.2 million from the client, including about $1.5 million marked as payments for nursing services and vacation pay, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office…