United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of 25 counts of False Claims, and 5 counts of Wire Fraud, was sentenced on January 4, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
Jacques Eviglo, d/b/a Global Income Tax Services, age 37, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for Counts 1 through 25, 108 months in federal prison for Counts 26 through 30, all to be served concurrently, followed by 2 years of supervised release, restitution in the amount of $2,543,286.41, and a special assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund in the amount of $3,000.
Eviglo was indicted by a federal grand jury on Jan. 23, 2018.
The conviction stemmed from incidents between Feb. 21, 2015, and March 14, 2017, when Eviglo, doing business as Global Income Tax Services located in Sioux Falls, prepared and electronically filed federal income tax returns for clients. Eviglo claimed large, false itemized deductions on hundreds of those returns. These false deductions were used to lower the federal tax liability on the returns and falsely inflate the refund amounts. The clients did not provide Eviglo with the false information he submitted to the United States government.
Eviglo then utilized a third party company as an intermediary to receive and disburse his clients’ federal income tax refund payments instead of having the payments directly deposited into his clients’ bank accounts. Unbeknownst to his clients, Eviglo skimmed additional “fees" from those refund payments. Eviglo kept the skimmed portion for himself. The total amount Eviglo skimmed exceeded $800,000 over a four-year period of time.
This case was investigated by the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Ann M. Hoffman and Criminal Division Deputy Chief John E. Haak prosecuted the case.
Eviglo was immediately turned over to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
