Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Rosa Colon, who ran X-Press Taxes in Somerville, was also ordered to pay $400,000 in restitution to the IRS.
A former Somerville tax preparer was sentenced Tuesday to 61 months in prison—just over five years—for committing identity theft and tax fraud, according an announcement from the District of Massachusetts United States Attorney's office. Rosa Ivette Colon, 44, of Milford, ran X-Press Taxes in Somerville, and between 2004 and 2010 she prepared false claims for herself and clients, sometimes unlawfully using their identities without their knowledge. She defrauded the government somewhere between $400,000 and $1 million in unpaid taxes, according to an August press release from the U.S. Attorney's office. Colon pleaded guilty in August to 32 counts of aggravated identity theft, filing false claims with the IRS and forging endorsements on U.S…
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Rosa Colon defrauded the government of between $400K and $1 million in taxes.
Rosa Ivette Colon, 44, who ran a business called X-Press Taxes in Somerville, pleaded guilty Tuesday to identity theft and tax fraud, according to an announcement from the District of Massachusetts United States Attorney's office. Colon, who's from Milford, prepared hundreds of false tax returns for her clients, the announcement says. From 2004 to 2010, she would often prepare two versions of tax claims. One she would provide to her clients, the second, claiming a larger tax refund, she would file with the IRS, and she would pocket the difference, according to the announcement. She also filed fraudulent claims for herself, using bogus W-2 forms claiming nonexistent wages and and withholdings, the announcement says. The announcement says in…
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Rosa Ivette Colon ran X-Press Taxes at various offices in Somerville and prepared fraudulent tax returns for Spanish-speaking clients, according to an announcement from the U.S. District Attorney.
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
The following was provided by the U.S. District Attorney's office for the district of Massachusetts: TAX PREPARER CHARGED WITH I.D. THEFT AND TAX OFFENSES BOSTON - A Milford woman who ran a tax preparation business in Somerville has been arrested and charged with identity theft and tax fraud charges relating to her operation of that business. Rosa Ivette Colon, 44, was arrested and charged with aggravated identity theft, filing false claims with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and forging endorsements on United States Treasury checks in a 32 count indictment returned by a grand jury sitting in Boston, on Dec. 7, 2011. According to the indictment, Colon operated a business called X-Press Taxes in various offices in Somerville, where …
Lisa
11:03 am on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Hope she does some serious time. more ›