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Illegal Immigrant Defrauds IRS in $25 Million Tax Scheme, Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison

Illegal Immigrant Defrauds IRS in $25 Million Tax Scheme, Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington on June 28, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times
Kimberly Hayek
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Miguel Martinez, a 39-year-old Mexican national living in Bakersfield, California, was sentenced on Thursday to six years in prison for leading a $25 million fraud against the IRS. He faces 10 years in prison.

He was one of two Bakersfield-area men charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States and submission of false claims to the IRS. He was also charged with identity theft.

Kimberly Hayek
Kimberly Hayek
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Kimberly Hayek is a reporter for The Epoch Times. She covers California news and has worked as an editor and on scene at the U.S.-Mexico border during the 2018 migrant caravan crisis.