Posted on 07/06/2015 6:33:40 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
NEWARK, NJ—A citizen of the Republic of Bulgaria today admitted his involvement in a $6 million fraudulent tax return scheme that used personal identifying information stolen from multiple accounting firm networks, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
Vanyo Minkov, 32, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Jose L. Linares in Newark federal court to a superseding information charging him with one count of conspiring to file false and fraudulent tax returns.
According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:
In late 2012, Minkov and his conspirators hacked into the networks of at least four accounting firms and stole the 2011 tax filings for over 1,000 of the firms’ clients. Minkov and others then used the stolen information to file fraudulent tax returns in the clients’ names for the 2012 tax year or sold the information to others for the same purpose. To date, the IRS has identified over $6 million in fraudulent claims made in connection with the scheme.
The charge to which Minkov pleaded guilty carries a maximum potential penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense. Sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 13, 2015. . .
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A drop in the bucket, but still...
Must have been a democrat donor or two who got hit. Otherwise, the IRS would not care or bother...
The article doesn’t tell which accounting firms, which would be interesting to know.
...but they told him that this was the land of the “free”.
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