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Tax Preparer Withdraws Plan To Plead Guilty To 99 Federal Charges
June 29, 2011
A former Alabama tax preparer expected to plead guilty to a 99-count federal indictment has changed her mind and will instead go to trial.
Alice Mobley faces a long list of charges, including preparing and filing false tax returns, mortgage fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and filing false tax returns. Mobley’s charges stem from alleged false tax returns filed from 2007 to 2009 through her business Preyear Tax and Check Cashing, LLC, located in Monroeville and its offices in Atmore and Thomasville.
In April, Mobley entered a not guilty plea to all of the charges against her. Mobley and her attorney were first scheduled to change her plea on June 23, but asked that the change of plea hearing be rescheduled for this week because “additional time is needed to finish all negotiations”. Mobley withdrew her intent to take a plea deal this week.
A trail date has not yet been set for the former tax preparer, but she is expected to be back in court by August. She faces up to 30 years in prison and a quarter million dollars in fines if convicted.
Federal agents raided Mobley’s Preyear’s Tax & Check Cashing, LLC on Ridgely Street in Atmore and other locations in March, 2010. Federal court documents show that FBI and IRS agents seized over $300,000, boxes of tax documents, computers, vehicles and even a stuffed teddy bear when they raided the businesses and Mobley’s Monroeville home.
Mobley’s scheme filed tax returns claiming some $68 million in tax refunds, largely for Earned Income Credit and other tax credits, according to the Department of Justice. Mobley would falsely claim various dependent credits, either charged her clients an extra fee for the using the false dependents or pocketing the extra funds herself.
Mobley also “split” dependents, using the identity of some children on one return to obtain Earned Income Credit, and on other returns to obtain Child Credit and Dependent Care Credit. Mobley’s firm also prepared returns which claimed business tax deductions for business which did not exist and farm tax deductions for clients who did not have farms, the DOJ said.
Mobley was also charged with mortgage fraud and wire fraud in connection with fraud in regards to applications she made for mortgages to CitiBank and Wells Fargo.
Pictured above: A federal agent enters Preyear’s Tax & Check Cashing, LLC in Atmore March 4, 2010. Pictured inset: Agents search a vehicle at the business. Pictured below: A federal agent and an Atmore Police officer talk to an employee of the business during the raid. NorthEscambia.com file photos, click to enlarge.
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4 Responses to “Tax Preparer Withdraws Plan To Plead Guilty To 99 Federal Charges”
You have to be careful of those TV commercials regarding getting rid or lowering your tax liability, the biggest majority of them are scams. They take your money and leave you owing the IRS the amount that the IRS claims you owe.
Like the old saying goes, if it sounds to good to be true then it probably is.
We have all seen the TV commericals about if you owe the IRS $10000.00 or more dollars then we can help. I know the IRS hasn’t given me no break. If I don’t pay them they will fine me and then put leins agaist everything I got but if you owe more then $10000.00 then they will settle for pennies on the dollar. Go figure This is why we need to get rid of the IRS. Go to a flat tax. There should be no settlement, If you owe then you should pay like the rest of use 10-4 No body is watching the ship.
I’m for a better America not the same old SH!!!
Where the CHANGE, has anybody seen it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No need to be scared of the IRS if everything you are doing is legitimate. They only ones that should worry about the IRS are those that are involved in illegal activities.
Keep you nose clean when preparing tax returns and everything will be hunky-dory. I have been doing tax returns for 20 years and have not had a single issue with the IRS, that is not to say that some of my customers have tried to get me to get some some illegal deductions or credits. My reply is that they need to take their taxes somewhere else.
I know people that have been doing this for years. Do not work at tax time n=make up businesses. Some say they clean houses for people. I would even here them say they would name names of people if they needed to I do not understand why people are not scared of IRS.