Charese Johnson was sentenced to three years in prison and one year of supervised release, according to a press release from the Department of Justice.
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Washington, DC - A federal jury in the District of Columbia convicted a Maryland woman Thursday for preparing three false tax returns for District of Columbia residents that claimed more than $1.1 million in fraudulent refunds.
According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Charese Johnson, of Aberdeen, Maryland, operated Prodigy Accounting Services and prepared false amended income tax returns in 2014 for three District of Columbia taxpayers. Those returns fraudulently claimed large refunds based upon fictious refundable credits and phony withholdings that had never been paid to the IRS.
Johnson is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 17 and faces a maximum penalty of three years in prison on each count. A federal district judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.