LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas man who spent $360,000 on new automobiles out of cash from false revenue tax returns was sentenced Thursday to 27 months in jail.
Richard Jason Mountford, previously of California, conspired with one other particular person to submit false returns in their very own names, in addition to within the names of two different unwitting people, from 2016 to 2020, based on a U.S. Division of Justice information launch. The tax returns reported wages and tax withholdings, submitting for tax refunds that the conspirators weren’t entitled to obtain.
In all, Mountford and his co-conspirator took $873,723.53 from the IRS, prosecutors stated.
Mountford deposited $757,075.53 into his personal financial institution accounts, utilizing the cash to purchase new automobiles. He additionally distributed $170,000 in money and gold bars to his co-conspirator, prosecutors stated.
U.S. District Decide Troy L. Nunley for the Japanese District of California additionally ordered Mountford to serve one 12 months of supervised launch and to repay the $757,075.53.
The IRS Prison Investigation division investigated the case.
