An Auburn resident has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Portland to filing a false tax return and interfering with the administration of federal tax laws.
Court documents state that Rakiya Mohamed, 30, filed false federal income tax returns for the years 2018 and 2019. She owned Reliable Language Resources, a language interpretation business, and reported its income and expenses on her individual tax filings. The court found that Mohamed claimed fraudulent expenses related to contract labor and office costs for her business on those returns. When the Internal Revenue Service audited her filings for 2018 and 2019, Mohamed provided falsified records to support the fraudulent expenses.
Mohamed could face up to three years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, and one year of supervised release. Sentencing will occur after a presentence investigative report is completed by the U.S. Probation Office. The final sentence will be determined by a federal district court judge based on the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
The investigation was conducted by IRS Criminal Investigation.
