A Sacramento mother and son were sentenced to federal prison on Monday for a phony tax return scheme prosecutors said bilked the Internal Revenue Service of $1.5 million in refunds.
Dominic Davis, 40, pleaded guilty to conspiring with his mother, Sharita Wright, to file several false tax returns, and also to filing still more returns for himself, family members and friends, a plea agreement filed in Sacramento federal court shows. Wright, 61, also pleaded guilty.
Nine false returns, which sought about $2.5 million in unearned tax refunds, were filed between 2019 and 2022 in connection with the scheme, prosecutors said. The IRS paid out $550,000 on the ones Davis filed with his mother, and another $918,000 for returns that he filed on his own, according to the plea agreement…