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Two Plead Guilty in $2.9-Million Return Fraud

 Two Florida tax preparers have pleaded guilty to filing bogus income tax returns that cost the government slightly less than $2.9 million in fraudulent refunds.. Nikency Alexis and Thony Guillaume entered the pleas to charge of conspiring to defraud the United States and preparing false tax returns.

Alexis owned and operated Broward County-based Unity Tax & Financial Services, and Gillaume worked there as a preparer. They were accused of claiming undeserved business and education expenses for their clients in order to hike tax refunds from 2011 through at least 2016. Alexis also pleaded guilty to making false statements on his personal income tax returns.

Each faces a maximum of five years in prison on the conspiracy charge and a three-year sentence for filing false tax returns.

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