Texas Man Sentenced 14 Years for Running $110 Million Tax Refund Scheme

The scheme duped the IRS into believing the scammers represented legitimate taxpayers. A Texas man was sentenced to more than 14 years in prison for leading a scam seeking to steal more than $110 million in tax refunds, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). The sentence was handed down to Abraham Yusuff of Round Rock on Sept. 6, according to a DOJ press release . Yusuff was convicted of being the leader of a “stolen-identity-refund-fraud” scheme that ran between 2018 and 2021, the DOJ said. As part of the...