Posted on 12/17/2019 12:22:04 PM PST by dennisw
A Broward County father and daughter claimed the government owed them $175 million in tax refunds on their lottery winnings. The IRS paid them $3.4 million before the agency realized the pair had never purchased a winning ticket, prosecutors say.
Now, the pair, who say theyre aboriginal indigenous Moorish Americans immune to government authority, are on trial in a Palm Beach federal courtroom accused of tax fraud.
Court documents allege that Danielle Takeila Edmonson, 35, of Boynton, and Kenneth Roger Edmonson, 51, of Oakland Park, began filing a series of bogus tax returns in 2015. RELATED: Man gets 40 years for fake legal filings »
That year, prosecutors allege, Danielle Edmonson claimed an unspecified amount of lottery winnings, and managed to get the IRS to pay her $239,700. With her allegedly ill-gotten refunds, Danielle Edmonson bought a BMW and took out $60,000 from the bank in cash.
The following year, the woman who court filings describe as a masters in business graduate decided to ask the IRS to pay her over $80 million in returns on over $141 million of supposed income.
Your demand has no legal validity and is not payable through any federal agency," the IRS replied in a letter quoted in court documents. Your scheme appears to be akin to a fraud."
But the revenue services remonstrance didnt slow Dainelle Edmonson. The following year, 2016, she got almost $2.5 million out of the agency in what prosecutors allege are fraudulent filings. And the following year, 2017, she asked for $9 million.
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I was pleasantly surprised when MTM became a conservative in her final years.
A counter balance to Ed Asner, I’m sure.
Let’s talk “reparations” now.
How much of MY money did this dynamic duo get? I want it back.
I thought Mary Tyler Moor was a vegan.<<<
You deciphered it! Everyone wants to be like Mary.
And well, 'tis the season to be Mary.
Oh wow. Great plan for if you never got caught!
Pretty sure she was married so probably not a vegan.
I absolutely kid you not. It was several years ago.
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