The Tax Fraud Blog – Qui Tam Attorneys

Former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Officer Mark E. Hunt, along with three other Maryland men, has been charged in a Tax Evasion scheme. The scheme was orchestrated by Potomac attorney Irvin Catlett and totaled $1.2 million. Hunt worked as Catlett’s inside man and provided taxpayer information while using his position with the IRS to convince clients that the scheme was safe from prosecution.

Catlett has been charged with fraud, obstruction of IRS law, and 10 counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns. The scheme worked by absorbing the investments (supposedly in three car dealerships) of clients and then posting the dealerships as losses on the client’s returns, allowing the taxpayers to negate their taxable income because of the supposed “losses.”

Catlett faces up to 38 years in prison. Hunt faces up to 13 years for lying to an investigator and participation in fraud and the other three conspirators face up to 5 years each.