Fomer IRS Employee, Three Others Sentenced In Mail Fraud Scheme

July 18, 2015

Four Escambia County residents, including a former IRS tax examiner, have been sentenced to prison for conspiring to file false claims for payment in connection with  the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Recently, Rosa M. Bonner, 52, and Ariyanna S. Lampley, 33, were sentenced to 27  months and 48 months in prison respectively. This week, Jimmie A. McCorvey, 41, and Marcia D. McCorvey, 42, were sentenced to 72 months and 12 months and one day in prison respectively.

All defendants entered guilty pleas, admitting their participation in a conspiracy to commit mail fraud.  The conspiracy involved the filing of false claims with the Gulf Coast Claims  Facility (“GCCF”) alleging lost income as a result of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill.

Between 2010 and 2012, the defendants agreed to have Jimmie McCorvey file false GCCF claims in their names and other names provided by Lampley, seeking more than $327,000 in payments for alleged lost earnings and profits as a result of the spill.  Jimmie McCorvey  fraudulently used Pensacola addresses to indicate that all claimants lived and worked in Pensacola.  As a result of these false claims, GCCF paid $95,200 to the defendants.

Jimmie McCorvey, who was an IRS employee at the time, also admitted to conspiring with Lampley and others to prepare and file approximately 25 fraudulent federal income tax returns  between 2009 and 2011, resulting in the issuance of more than $62,000 in tax refund checks.
The fraudulently obtained tax refund checks were deposited in bank accounts controlled by Lampley, who paid Jimmie McCorvey a portion of each check.  Jimmie McCorvey also pled guilty to aggravated identity theft for fraudulently using other people’s identities in both schemes.

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One Response to “Fomer IRS Employee, Three Others Sentenced In Mail Fraud Scheme”

  1. Jane on July 19th, 2015 5:09 am

    This just makes Americans distrust the government even more when one of the IRS employees commit a crime. Maybe government employees should be subject to stiffer sentences for crimes like this. After all we have to give them our money!

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