Posted on 05/15/2021 2:08:28 AM PDT by Libloather
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (FOX 2) - Two Metro Detroit rappers have been charged with stealing more than $5 million from the United States IRS in an elaborate tax scheme where the women claimed withholdings and refunds of more than $13.6 million from 2013 to 2017.
Sameerah Marrel of Detroit and Noelle Brown of Romulus were both charged with aggravated identity theft, false claims, and conspiracy in an IRS complaint that was unsealed this week.
The duo performed as the female rap group "Deuces Wild" under stage names Creme (Marrel) and Brown.
The special agent investigating the case, Tyler Goodnight, said that information from IRS's Scheme Development Center identified multiple false and fraudulent tax returns for estates and trusts set up under businesses filed between 2013 and 2017. Goodnight also said the women were involved in schemes to file tax returns for trusts using other people's identities without their consent and would get other people involved and then have those people pay the women from the refunds issued.
In those returns, Goodnight said they claimed the IRS had withheld large amounts of income tax from the trusts filing the returns.
All told, Goodnight said they falsely reported withholdings and claimed refunds of more than $13.6 million and that the IRS had paid out $5,539,049 to the women before recognizing the fraud.
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And they thought this would work?
SMH
No way such false information is going to fly with the IRS.
The IRS steals money from us, we do not steal from the IRS.
wonder if “rapper” is slang for someone having a rap sheet...
$5M?
....pikers.
The real crime is a federal tax collector that allows $5,000,000 to be stolen over a period of years before seeing a problem.
Exactly right on the $5mil - my own recent interaction with the IRS was .001 of that & they were after that like a dog on a bone. Their letters would make you think they thought you were the next Al Capone & they just needed your size for the orange jumpsuit you were about to wear. Iâm now thoroughly convinced that if youâre going to get in the governmentâs pocket, the rule is go large or go home because the small guy will get it, hard.
I wonder if these two young women pre-pondered the damage this would impart upon the image of their fellow negroes.
Mixed feelings.
Got a lot way to go to being as ugly as Carby-D.
Innocent
yup
But I thought tax fraud was strictly a white (collar) crime?
OH they were just erasing some of that racism business.
/s
It’s more like “Failing to allow the IRS to steal $5 million from them”.
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