Some people Binge-Beken shows during the Covid Pandemie. Others picked up pickleball. But according to federal public prosecutors, a Las Vegas woman has submitted false tax returns for her company and others with a busy average rate of almost 80 a month.
For a period of 16 months that starts in June 2022, the Ministry of Justice said on Friday that the woman, Candies Goode-McCy, has submitted more than 1,200 reports to claim fraudulent COVID-19 tax credits of almost $ 100 million.
Mrs. Goode-McCoy, 34, who are guilty on Thursday under a pleidoo agreement in the American court in Las Vegas for accusation of conspiracy to cheat on the government, managed to pay the IRS about $ 33 million, said prosecutors. She took $ 1.3 million of them herself, they said, and received an extra $ 800,000 of those for whom she has prepared the false returns.
Mrs. Goode-McCoy, who could be confronted in prison for up to 10 years when she was convicted in February 2026, used the money to gamble at casinos, take holidays and buy luxury cars, said prosecutors. She also bought designer clothing from Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci and Louis Vuitton, according to judicial documents.
Her lawyer could not be reached on Friday for comment.
According to public prosecutors, the companies for which Mrs. Goode-McCoy taxes were not eligible to receive the repayable credits in the amounts claimed.
According to the Pleidooi agreement, Mrs. Goode-Mcoy agreed to return the most of the $ 33 million that was obtained fraudulently.
The fraudulent tax returns were submitted from June 2022 to September 2023, officials said. The repayments that Mrs. Goode-McCoy sought were based on the storage credit of employees and the sick and family leave credit programs, according to judicial documents.
The tax credits were part of billions in exemption money, approved by the congress and sent to private individuals and companies after the COVID-19 Pandemie started five years ago.
The credit program for maintaining employees offered companies thousands of dollars per employee if they could prove that the pandemie hurt their companies, but that they continued to pay employees. Sick and family leave credit offered tax benefits to employers who voluntarily paid their employees sick and family leave if they had to take free time because of the pandemic.
The companies that was owned by Mrs. Goode-Mcoy were included in Nevada, show judicial documents, and wore names such as changing life movement, exclusive flavors, Queen Smith Professional Corporation and Candies King Elliott.
Researchers said they had worked with others, including a non-inspired co-samenweerer, to use software for preparing commercial taxes to submit 1,227 forms, although none of the people or companies she has applied for, in was eligible for those tax credits or in the amounts that she claimed.
She “always knew that the forms 941 they were submitting were fraudulent”, said public prosecutors in judicial documents, referring to the forms that employers use to report income taxes, social security tax or medicine tax to the salary of employees.
Government researchers have difficulty keeping track of pandemic -related fraud that have their efforts and limited resources aimed at large matters with millions of dollars. Federal public prosecutors have used new methods and even familiarize individuals to hunt for possible cases of fraud.
Washington spread billions of dollars with few strings and little supervision as part of her response to the pandemic.
The Inspector General of the Small Business Administration has estimated that more than $ 200 billion – or at least 17 percent of the pandemic loans that the agency distributed – was awarded to 'potentially fraudulent actors'.
Kirsten Noyes contributed research.
