RALEIGH, N.C. – A Fayetteville woman was sentenced today to 54 months in prison for her role in a “card-cracking” scheme that caused a total loss of over
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New Bern, NC A Rocky Mount, North Carolina woman was sentenced yesterday to 24 months imprisonment and ordered to pay $229,000 in restitution for committing conspiracy to prepare and file false tax returns.
According to court documents, Priscilla Evans conspired with others to file false tax returns for the 2011 through 2016 tax years for clients of Community Tax Services LLC located in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Evans and her co-conspirators filed tax returns that claimed false education credits, among other illegitimate items, in order to fraudulently generate clients tax refunds. According to the IRS, the three-year scam resulted in a loss of more than $2 million in tax dollars. On July 14, 2020, Evans pled guilty to the charge.
Wilmington, NC A Wake Forest, NC man was sentenced today to 135 months imprisonment for wire fraud and ordered to pay $6,040,965.00 in restitution.
According to court documents, Anthony Wayne March operated the non-profit 501(c)(3) entity Asset Trader, located in Rolesville, NC, between 2012 to 2015. March represented that Asset Trader offered educational services to professionals and taxpayers in the area of exit planning. Asset Trader s stated educational mission allowed it to obtain classification as a 28 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization. Asset Trader used its §501(c)(3) tax-exempt status to solicit tax-deductible donations in exchange for charitable gift annuities ( CGAs ) and to recruit referral sources to obtain assets from potential donors. Through Asset Trader, March and his co-conspirators engaged in and executed what is commonly known as a Ponzi scheme to defraud investors by inducing them to invest with Asset Trader.