Posted on 01/10/2024 9:14:37 PM PST by bitt
John Anthony Castro, a Texas man known for his legal efforts to challenge former President Donald Trump’s eligibility for the 2024 presidential ballot, has been arrested on charges related to filing false tax documents.
Castro, who filed challenges in 27 states against Trump’s ballot placement, was indicted last week on 33 counts of aiding the preparation of false tax returns.
Castro operated a virtual tax preparation business that deceitfully inflated tax refunds for clients, The Hill reported.
Castro was the proprietor of Castro & Company LLC, a digital tax preparation firm with establishments in Orlando, Mansfield, and Washington, D.C., per WFAA.
According to court documents, Castro promised significantly higher refunds than other tax preparers and often proposed to split the extra refund with taxpayers. To achieve these larger refunds, he reportedly created false deductions and submitted them without the taxpayers’ knowledge.
Evidence of Castro’s fraudulent activities surfaced when an undercover officer in 2018, who had previously been quoted a $373 refund by a reputable tax preparer, was promised a $6,007 refund by Castro. The tax forms filed by Castro contained nearly $30,000 in fraudulently claimed deductions.
Outside his tax business, Castro, a GOP presidential candidate himself albeit a long-shot. He was born on the U.S. military base in Landstuhl, Germany and lives in Texas.
According to Ballotpedia, he earned a J.D. from the University of New Mexico School of Law, and an LL.M. from the Georgetown University Law Center. Castro’s career experience includes working as an attorney and entrepreneur.
According to the New York Times, Castro has never been licensed to practice law in any state.
John Anthony Castro hates Trump supporters. He hates Trump and his supporters with a red-hot passion.
He has been persistent in challenging Trump’s candidacy, citing the 14th Amendment over Trump’s alleged involvement in the January 6 Capitol riots. His legal maneuvers have seen mixed success, with challenges being dismissed in states like West Virginia and Nevada, while still pending in others. Some states, like Maine, are considering the issue.
The other states where Castro has filed these lawsuits include:
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John Anthony Castro hates Trump supporters. He hates Trump and his supporters with a red-hot passion.
Happy MAGA to ya!
Castro. Yep. The name fits the man.
LOL.
People who throw stones shouldn’t live in glass houses.
That will throw up red flags 🚩
All these leftists project. It reminds me back in the 1990s I worked for a food distribution company in Brooklyn, and we had this boss that was constantly accusing employees of stealing, over and over and over, and guess who was stealing? HE was! So much product that he had his own warehouse if you can believe it. The guy late at night would drive a truck out loaded with product and dump it at his warehouse.
This is the same exact crap going on today with leftists and Trump. The biggest crooks are the ones making the biggest accusations.
He was last seen hanging out with Abbe Lowell and Liz Cheney.
“Scratch a liar. Find a thief.”
Just kind of shows you who the leaders of the Democratic Party are relying upon to keep Slow Joe and themselves in power.
This race really is between good and evil... this is one more example of that...
This guy is beyond a RINO.
Question.
If the CID of the IRS ran a sting operation in 2018, why did they wait until now to prosecute him?
Answer, because he went after Trump, they deferred prosecusuion.
This really smells of weaponized IRS. Notice the fraud case was with the IRS in Washington DC!
No IRS criminal case would take 2018 to 2024 to surface. This case was slow moved as long as he kept filing suits against Trump.
TDS? hold my beer!
He is a Democrat and a community organizer, ultimately nothing will happen.
Unfortunately being a felon, convicted or not does not preclude access to the justice system. He could be sent to death row and still be able to file lawsuits.
It’s a common last name but is he related to Julian and Joaquin Castro?
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