LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas woman and her son conspired to defraud the IRS of $5 million in false tax returns filed over a five-year span. Both entered guilty pleas on Monday in federal court.
Iris Hondermann and Ivan Odiaga funneled $1.1 million in proceeds from the fraud into their own bank accounts without their clients’ knowledge or consent, according to court documents and court statements cited in a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Nevada.
Hondermann, who owned and operated a tax preparation business in Las Vegas, and Odiaga, who worked for his mother’s business, filed false tax returns with the IRS from 2017 through 2021, according to the IRS Criminal Investigation Division…