Mobile County Woman Receives a Sentence of Five Years Probation for Filing False Tax Returns and Ordered to Pay $43,608 Restitution to the IRS

United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Juanike Gulley, a 36 year old resident of Mobile, Alabama was sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to pay $43,608.00 restitution to the IRS for conspiring to file false tax returns for others and filing a false tax return for herself.

On July 23, 2018, according to a factual statement Gulley signed in connection with her guilty plea to the tax crimes, during 2011 through 2015, Gulley and Demetrius Kidd operated G & K Tax Service. They conspired together to file false tax returns for their taxpayer customers.  Specifically, Gulley and Kidd prepared, assisted in the preparation of or directed the preparation of tax returns for six taxpayer/customers.. The tax returns they prepared had fraudulent information about Schedule C expenses, education credits and earned income credits. This false information caused the IRS to issue tax refunds to the taxpayer/customers that were higher than they would have received thereby defrauding the IRS of approximately $43,608.00.   Additionally, on April 7, 2016, Gulley, a Mobile, Alabama resident, prepared her own tax return for tax year 2013 and swore under penalty of perjury that the information in the returns was true and accurate, knowing at that time she did not believe the information to be true and knew the information was false. Specifically, she stated that her income was $36,690.00 when in truth and in fact, it was higher than she stated.

Special Agents of the IRS/Criminal Investigation Division investigated the case and brought it to the U. S. Attorney=s Office for prosecution.  The prosecutor assigned to the case is Assistant United States Attorney, Gina S. Vann.