Philadelphia, PA Arleny Reyes Nunez, of Philadelphia, PA and the Dominican Republic, was sentenced to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $154,528 in restitution by United States District Judge Harvey Bartle III, for using the personal identification information of others to file fraudulent tax returns, resulting in more than $150,000 in losses to the federal government.
In August 2020, the defendant pleaded guilty to charges of criminal conspiracy to defraud the federal government, theft of government funds, and the unlawful possession and use of a means of identification. The charges were the result of the defendant and her co-conspirators acting together to defraud the United States by filing fraudulent tax returns using the identities of others.
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Philadelphia, PA - Jeffrey Blackwell, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today to 22 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $25,612 in restitution for misusing his official position with the Philadelphia City Controller s Office to enrich himself by soliciting and accepting bribes, and for committing additional tax crimes.
Blackwell pleaded guilty in August 2020 to charges of honest services wire fraud, filing a false tax return, and two counts of failure to file a tax return. A former City of Philadelphia employee in the Investigations Division of the Office of the City Controller, the defendant committed a series of frauds between 2013 and 2015, accepting more than $20,000 in bribes for city services.