What not to do on supervised release

[Demosthenes]

POMPANO BEACH RESIDENT CHARGED IN ATTEMPTED MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR TAX REFUND FRAUD SCHEME
December 11, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Nathan J. Hochman, Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, Tax Division, and Betty N. Stewart, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, announced that defendant Willie Bernard Cameron was charged with three counts of filing a false, fictitious or fraudulent claim against the United States, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 287. The three-count Indictment alleges that Cameron filed three false U.S. Individual Income Tax Returns, IRS Forms 1040, on which he made claims against the United States for payments of tax refunds in the amounts of $52,918.97, $360,000 and $2,975,000,000.[/color]

On October 23, 2008, U.S. District Court Judge James L. Cohn held a contested hearing concerning the revocation of supervised release of Cameron. During that hearing, it was established that Cameron had filed a false claim for refund with the Internal Revenue Service while on supervised release from two prior convictions. The evidence presented established that Cameron, who had been incarcerated since September 1999, had been released from the Federal Correctional Institution in Coleman, FL, on March 3, 2008. The evidence at the supervised release violation hearing established that Cameron filed the false claim with the IRS in May, 2008, requesting a refund to which he was not entitled in the amount of $358,035. Judge Cohn found that Cameron had committed the offense, revoked his supervised release, and sentenced him to eighteen months’ additional incarceration on each of two cases, with the sentences to run consecutively, for a total period of additional incarceration of 36 months.

If convicted of all counts of today’s indictment, Cameron faces a total of 15 years’ incarceration, followed by 3 years period of supervised release, a fine up to $750,000 and a special assessment in the amount of $300.

The prosecution of this case is assigned to Assistant United States Attorney Thomas Lanigan and Tax Division Trial Attorney Gregory Bockin. They are being assisted by agents from Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation.

A copy of this press release may be found on the website of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida at http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/fls. Related court documents and information may be found on the website of the District Court for the Southern District of Florida at http://www.flsd.uscourts.gov or on http://pacer.flsd.uscourts.gov.

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[LPC]

Some irony from Weston White on LH:

Alright, obviously this is either one of the dumbest persons on the face of the planet or is criminally insane; either way he should be in a mental hospital under observation and rehabilitation, not in a criminal trial. This reminds me of that incident from a few years back when a young male adult stole a check from his friends mother and attempted to cash it at the local bank after forging it for something like 7-trillion dollars (it was some entirely crazy amount that is totally beyond all reason and logic). This is just utterly ridiculous because there is a 0% change of him succeeding in his crime or scheme, it is never going to happen, ever. Same as the IRS will not honor a 3-billion dollar tax refund, that is just not feasible... Is this just signs of desperation or yet another government false flag for the upcoming tax season? You decide!

The irony is that CtC is just as crazy, but WW can't see it.

[Randall]

Why would someone want so many worthless FRNs?

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If convicted of all counts of today’s indictment, Cameron faces a total of 15 years’ incarceration, followed by 3 years period of supervised release, a fine up to $750,000 and a special assessment in the amount of $300.

That $300 special assessment is totally going to break the bank for him, too.

[TheSaint]

POMPANO BEACH RESIDENT

made claims for payments in the amount of $2,975,000,000

filed a false claim for refund with the Internal Revenue Service while on supervised release from two prior convictions

This guy should join TUC.

[grixit]

Where are the TUC folks anyway? Have they relented in their demand that the B of A be delivered to them in a little red wagon?