Jacqueline Slaton pleaded guilty today
in the Middle District of Alabama to one count of filing a false tax return and
one count of aggravated identity theft, the Department of Justice and the
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.
Slaton was indicted in April 2012.
According to her plea agreement, between
December 2011 and March 2012, Slaton filed at least 102 fraudulent federal and
state income tax returns using stolen identities, claiming a total of $154,904
in fraudulent income tax refunds. Slaton had the tax refunds directed to
prepaid debit cards and had the cards mailed to various addresses on a U.S.
carrier’s route. A postal employee agreed to collect the prepaid debit cards
for a fee.
Sentencing has not yet been scheduled. Slaton
faces a mandatory minimum of two years in prison, and a maximum potential
sentence of seven years in prison, up to three years of supervised release,
mandatory restitution and a fine of up to $500,000 or twice the loss caused by
her offenses.
Kathryn Keneally, Assistant Attorney General
for the Justice Department’s Tax Division, thanked special agents of IRS -
Criminal Investigation, who investigated the case, and Tax Division Trial
Attorneys Jason H. Poole and Michael Boteler and Assistant United States
Attorney Jared Morris, who prosecuted the case.
Additional information about the Tax Division
and its enforcement efforts may be found at www.justice.gov/tax.
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