CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)—April 13, 2015. Eleven Chicago and suburban residents, among others, are facing federal prosecution for alleged federal income tax crimes in various separate cases filed recently. Defendants from Bolingbrook and Palatine were charged with evading income taxes by funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to bank accounts that they controlled and using the money for their own personal purposes. A tax preparer from Lockport was charged with assisting clients in obtaining over $1 million in fraudulent refunds and other defendants from Chicago were indicted in an alleged scheme to use stolen identities to fraudulently claim and obtain tax refunds based on fictitious returns.
