Goldsboro tax preparer gets prison time for fraud
A Goldsboro tax preparer was sentenced Tuesday to almost five years in federal prison for manufacturing W-2 forms used to file phony tax returns, authorities said.
Posted — UpdatedTracie Jones Mathis, 47, pleaded guilty in January to conspiring to defraud the U.S. and was sentenced to 57 months in prison and was ordered to pay close to $1.1 million in restitution.
“The defendant pleaded guilty to defrauding the government of nearly $2 million in phony tax returns, thereby enriching herself at the expense of the American tax payer,” Brock Nicholson, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Atlanta, said in a statement.
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