Woman pleads guilty to $1.6M tax fraud
A Suffolk woman pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to charges connected with a tax fraud scheme that cost the government about $1.6 million, according to the Department of Justice.
Stephanie Towns, 43, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States and aiding the preparation of a false tax return, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Virginia.
Towns faces a maximum penalty of eight years in prison when she receives her sentence on Sept. 27, though federal judges often issue lower penalties than the maximum allowed by law.
Towns was one of the principal tax preparers for A Plus Tax Service and NN Financial, which operated at different points between July 2009 and February 2014.
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