A Rochester man has been sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $400,000 after pleading guilty to wire fraud charges for falsifying tax retu
In February 2020, 47-year-old Kenyatta Phipps filed a federal income tax return for the year of 2019 where he falsely reported wages and interest income of $13,273. This resulted in a refund of $696 from the IRS.
In September 2020, Phipps filed a fraudulent amended federal income tax return for the year 2019. In the fraudulent return, Phipps falsely reported that Platinum Express Cleaning received gross receipts of $455,734 from Eastman Kodak Company and had taxes withheld from such income of more than $355,000. This attempt was accepted by the IRS and resulted in Phipps receiving a fraudulent tax refund of $186,570.
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