SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Tobyhanna man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Scranton by Senior United States District Judge Edwin M. Kosik to serve 51 months in prison on the charges of filing fraudulent claims and income tax returns with the IRS.
According to United States Attorney Peter Smith, Brandon Hill, age 34, pleaded guilty to filing false or fraudulent claims with the IRS and assisting in the filing of fraudulent Income Tax returns in October 2013.
The charges were brought as a result of an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigations which discovered that Hill was preparing and filing false and fraudulent tax returns from his residence in Tobyhanna. It was part of the scheme that coconspirators provided Hill with their name and true social security number, from which information Hill prepared and filed tax returns with inflated earnings and manufactured false credits and adjustments, thereby inflating the refund issued by the IRS.
In addition to the prison term, Judge Kosik also ordered that Hill should pay restitution to the IRS in the amount of $291,103, and be supervised by the U.S. Probation Department for three years following his release from prison.
The Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigations conducted the investigation. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Todd K. Hinkley.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
