Portland Man Sentenced For Tax Refund Fraud Received over $296,000 in Fraudulent Refund
Sunday, April 27th, 2014 @ 4:12AM
PORTLAND, Ore. – Ricky Lee Greenwood, 32, of Portland, Oregon, was sentenced in federal court for a wide-spread tax refund fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney S. Amanda Marshall for the District of Oregon. Today, Greenwood was sentenced to 40 months in prison. The sentence will be followed by three years of supervised release. In October 2013, Greenwood pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft, wire fraud, and filing a false, fictitious, or fraudulent claim against the government.
According to court documents, Greenwood electronically filed at least 66 false tax returns with fictitious wage and false dependent information, requesting more than $300,000 in fraudulent refunds. Greenwood obtained the names and Social Security numbers of unemployed individuals in order to file fraudulent tax returns in their names. According to court documents, Greenwood also obtained the social security numbers of children and claimed them on the tax returns of unrelated individuals to maximize refundable credits – such as the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Additional Child Tax Credit – and further inflate the fraudulent refunds. Greenwood had more than $296,000 in fraudulent refunds deposited into accounts that he controlled or delivered to addresses he could access. Today, Greenwood was ordered to pay $296,106 in restitution to the IRS.
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