HONOLULU (KHON2) — A federal jury in Honolulu found a Hawaiʻi couple guilty in a tax fraud scheme that stretched across the United States and pulled nearly $200,000 from the U.S. Treasury.
Beverly Braumuller Hawver and Scott Hawver of ʻEwa Beach were convicted for their roles in a conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service.
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Prosecutors said the pair used fake tax documents to claim a large refund, then moved the money through accounts and business entities to keep the government from getting it back.
“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.
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The case is part of a wider fraud operation that drew more than 200 participants in at least 19 states…