The Tax Fraud Blog – Qui Tam Attorneys

On February 28, 2011, Walter Allen Johnson, aka Beau Johnson, a former Tennessee Department of Correction inmate admitted that while incarcerated by the Tennessee Department of Correction between February 2006 and January 2007, he conspired with others to defraud the United States by submitting false tax returns that claimed refunds on behalf of other inmates. To execute the scheme, Johnson and others collected Social Security numbers from inmates and used those Social Security numbers to file false income tax forms with the IRS, claiming refunds to which the inmates were not entitled. Johnson and his co-conspirators collected approximately 87 U.S. Treasury checks totaling approximately $57,880.

On November 18, 2011, Chief U.S. District Judge Todd J. Campbell of the Middle District of Tennessee sentenced Johnson to 92 months in prison for his role in the IRS tax fraud scheme. Johnson was also ordered to pay $57,880.80 in restitution.