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Parma woman faces longer prison sentence
by Steven Hepker | Citizen Patriot
Wednesday November 19, 2008, 7:04 AM

A Parma woman serving time for stealing two new trucks worth $90,000 is facing up to eight more years in prison for defrauding the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.

A federal jury on Friday convicted Jeanne Herrington, 60, of violating IRS laws with $10 million in bogus trust instruments.

Herrington also filed IRS 1099 forms claiming she paid substantial money to those involved in her prosecution, including a U.S. attorney, witnesses claimed in the week-long trial.

Herrington's husband, Karl, was sentenced in 2007 to six months in jail for a conviction of accessory after the fact for helping her live on the lam. Karl Herrington filed a 1099 form claiming he paid Jackson County Circuit Judge John McBain $1 million in 2006.

Jeanne Herrington employed the same tactic in Ohio, officials said. Karl Herrington was not part of the federal case argued in Toledo.

The federal jury also convicted Jeanne Herrington's co-defendant, Winfield Thomas of Carey, Ohio.

Investigators alleged that, starting in 1993, Thomas marketed and promoted "abusive trusts." He "instructed trust participants to prepare false tax returns, which unlawfully assigned personal income to the trusts and illegally deducted personal expenses as fiduciary fees," the indictment claimed.

"Herrington instructed trust participants to open and then quickly close checking accounts and to use the account and routing numbers for those accounts on the bogus drafts," officials said.
Officials consider the IRS fraud a tactic promoted within the militia movement, although the Herringtons have denied militia connections.

Thomas faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Herrington faces up to eight years in prison and a $500,000 fine.

Sentencing dates have not been set.

Jeanne Herrington is serving seven to 14 years in the Huron Valley Women's Complex. Circuit Judge Edward Grant, since retired, called her case "stranger than fiction" at her sentencing in August 2007.

Herrington pleaded guilty to writing a check for $47,390 to the Art Moehn dealership Nov. 14, 2002, and a second check for $43,134 two days later for a second Chevy truck. Her checking account was empty.

She did not show for sentencing and remained on the lam for four years, allegedly aided by her husband and militia members elsewhere.

Authorities busted Karl Herrington when they found a woman's bra and underwear in his laundry.

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Authorities busted Karl Herrington when they found a woman's bra and underwear in his laundry.

That is what he was arrested for? Or did the reporter mean to say that this was used as evidence to show that he was assisting his wife while she was on the lam. If it is the former, then I might as well turn myself in - my wife's undergarments ad my unmentionables are always in the same pile.