Press Release
DEFENDANT SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS IN PRISON IN TAX REFUND SCHEME
May 28, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, John A. DiCicco, Acting Assistant Attorney General, United States Department of Justice, Tax Division, and Daniel W. Auer, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, announced that defendant Willie Bernard Cameron was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William J. Zloch to five years' imprisonment on charges that he filed a false claim against the United States, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 287. This sentence is to run consecutively to a three year sentence that the defendant is currently serving on two violations of supervised release. The defendant had been in custody since August 4, 2008, the date of his initial appearance on the supervised release violation.
On March 19, 2009, Cameron pled guilty to filing a false 2007 U.S. Individual Income Tax Return, Form 1040, in which he claimed a tax refund in the amount of $2,975,000,000.
Mr. Acosta commended the investigative efforts of the IRS-CI. The case was prosecuted by Department of Justice Tax Division Trial Attorney Gregory R. Bockin and Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas P. Lanigan.
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