A multimillion-dollar tax scheme has officially landed three members of an Arlington, Texas, family behind bars. On Tuesday, a federal judge handed down significant prison terms to David Hunt, his son Baylon Hunt, and Corey Burt, Baylon’s half-brother, following a jury trial that exposed a sophisticated plot to swindle the government out of more than $8.5 million.
The operation centered on filing fraudulent tax returns under the names of various trusts the family claimed to control.
According to evidence presented in court, the group didn’t stop at simple paperwork. Baylon Hunt and another relative bolstered their claims by sending the IRS a trail of forged financial instruments and altered money orders…