BATON ROUGE – A guilty plea wrapped up a years-long investigation into fraud during the recovery after Hurricane Ida, the Louisiana Department of Revenue said.
Starr Carbo, the former co-owner of Global Tax Service, pleaded guilty to injuring public records during a hearing in July.
Carbo, along with Johnnie Mae Ricard and Erica Williams, all of Westwego, charged clients up to $110 to submit sales tax refunds and inflate the losses from Hurricane Ida. Clients told the LDR they did not provide the information the trio used to falsify the records…