{"id":20596,"date":"2013-04-11T14:32:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T18:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20596"},"modified":"2013-04-11T14:32:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T18:32:43","slug":"another-couple-indicted-for-tax-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20596","title":{"rendered":"Another Couple Indicted For Tax Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong>Federal agents arrested a Tampa couple Wednesday on a 17-count indictment. They are accused of filing more than 300 fraudulent income tax returns and receiving more than $2.7 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>A grand jury indicted <strong>Ms. Tressa Guy,<\/strong> 41, and <strong>Brian Simmons, <\/strong>33, on multiple counts of aggravated identity theft, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and multiple counts of wire fraud, and access device fraud.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, the two knowingly used unauthorized access devices and pre-paid debit cards issued in the names of actual people beginning in May 2012 through August 2012 without their knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>They reportedly filed more than 322 fraudulent federal income tax refunds and received $2,701,844 in refunds.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment stated, \u201c<strong>Ms. Guy, Simmons<\/strong> and others would direct the fraudulent tax returns into bank accounts linked to the pre-paid cards. They would then used the cards to make cash withdrawals in Florida and Georgia and to pay personal expenses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If convicted of all charges, they face a maximum of 20 years in federal prison on the conspiracy charge and 10 years on each charge of access device fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal agents arrested a Tampa couple Wednesday on a 17-count indictment. They are accused of filing more than 300 fraudulent income tax returns and receiving more than $2.7 million dollars. A grand jury indicted Ms. Tressa Guy, 41, and Brian Simmons, 33, on multiple counts of aggravated identity theft, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}