Associated Press
Detroit – A federal judge has sentenced a Detroit woman to more than four years in prison for her role in a scheme to defraud the Internal Revenue Service and six states out of about $28 million in tax returns.
U.S. Attorney Dawn Ison’s office announced Friday that U.S. District Judge Linda Parker sentenced 42-year-old Sameerah Marrell to four-and-a-half years behind bars and three years on supervised release.
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Ison’s office said Marrell pleaded guilty on Jan 23 to mail fraud, wire fraud and committing an offense on bond.
Marrell of Detroit was half of the rap duo "Deuces Wild."
According to court records, Marrell and accomplices filed 122 false claims for income tax refunds with the IRS and the Minnesota, Georgia, Maryland, Arizona, Connecticut and Colorado state treasuries between 2014 and 2022. The claims sought roughly $13.7 million from the IRS and about $14.7 million from the states. Neither Marrell nor her accomplices were entitled to these refunds, the Department of Justice said in a news release on Friday.
The false filings were for income tax returns for estates and trusts and claimed that the IRS and state tax agencies withheld large amounts, the DOJ said in the news release. Upon investigation, the IRS and state agencies found that they did not withhold any amounts from the trusts.
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