Prosecutors say Stephen Jake McGonigle tried to claim more than $10 million, and did get $1.2 million.
A former Orange County tax preparer convicted of carrying out a tax fraud in which prosecutors say he attempted to claim more than $10 million from the IRS and numerous state tax authorities was sentenced on Monday, March 18, to 10 years in federal prison.
A federal jury late last year found McGonigle guilty of conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. The scheme began in 2013, lasted more than a half-decade and spanned two other continents as well, prosecutors say. McGonigle was accused of sending a co-defendant to Thailand to get fake identification documents using the stolen identities and filing the false returns in office space in Costa Rica.
Investigators traced the IP address used to file the fake returns to the office space McGonigle leased in Costa Rica. Using direct surveillance and travel records, law enforcement officials determined that McGonigle had hired employees in that country to help him file the fake returns.
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