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 scheme, Yusuf and his co-conspirators contacted the IRS, posing as Certified Public Accountants and other professionals claiming to be authorized representatives of multiple taxpayers.
