Illinois Tax Preparer Sentenced to 36 Months for Stealing More Than $11M in COVID-19 Assistance Fraud
The U.S. Department of Justice said on November 10 that an Illinois woman was sentenced on Friday for running a multi-million-dollar pandemic assistance and unemployment benefits scheme that stole more than $11 million from taxpayers.
She received 36 months in prison and two years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $11,130,490 in restitution and a forfeiture money judgment of $1,965,712. The Justice Department's National Fraud Enforcement Division announced the sentence.
(Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
Source: U.S. Department of Justice
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