United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Demetrius Kidd, a 37 year old resident of Mobile, Alabama was sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to pay $43,608.00 restitution to the IRS for conspiring to file false tax returns for others and filing a false tax return for himself.
On July 23, 2018, according to a factual statement Kidd signed in connection with his guilty plea to the tax crimes, during 2011 through 2015, Kidd and Juanikee Gulley operated G & K Tax Service. They conspired together to file false tax returns for their taxpayer customers. Specifically, Gulley and Kidd prepared, assisted in the preparation of or directed the preparation of tax returns for six taxpayer/customers. The tax returns they prepared had fraudulent information about Schedule C expenses, education credits and earned income credits. This false information caused the IRS to issue tax refunds to the taxpayer/customers that were higher than they would have received thereby defrauding the IRS of approximately $43,608.00. Additionally, on May 9, 2017, Kidd, a Mobile, Alabama resident, prepared his own tax return for tax year 2013 and swore under penalty of perjury that the information in the returns was true and accurate, knowing at that time he did not believe the information to be true and knew the information was false. Specifically, he stated that his income was $36,690 when in truth and in fact, it was higher than he stated.
Special Agents of the IRS/Criminal Investigation Division investigated the case and brought it to the U. S. Attorney=s Office for prosecution. The prosecutor assigned to the case is Assistant United States Attorney, Gina S. Vann.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
