四名加州居民被控骗取逾9,300万美元新冠税收抵免 两人另涉枪击团伙主犯灭口
2025年6月26日，位于加利福尼亚州洛杉矶县洛杉矶市的联邦检察官办公室解封一份大陪审团起诉书：四名加州居民被控以虚假申报骗取逾9,300万美元新冠税收抵免，这是美国已知规模最大的同类诈骗案，其中两人另被控枪击团伙组织者企图灭口。四人于当日被捕。起诉书由洛杉矶联邦大陪审团于2025年6月11日提交。
被告为：Kristerpher Turner，52岁，住在哈伯城；Toriano Knox，55岁，住在洛杉矶市；Kenya Jones，46岁，住在康普顿市；Joyce Johnson，55岁，住在维克托维尔市。四人被控共谋邮件诈骗、邮件诈骗与共谋提交虚假申报等罪名。
检方说，2020年6月至2024年12月，四人为至少148家公司（其中包括虚假公司）提交《家庭优先新冠应对法》项下病假与家庭假工资税收抵免的虚假申报，索款总额约247,956,938美元，国税局实际签发的财政部支票至少约9,300万美元。Turner向每名客户收取骗得款项的20%至40%作为费用。
起诉书另指控，2023年8月29日，Knox与Jones等人在加迪纳市一处办公园区于光天化日下向Turner连开多枪，企图将其杀害灭口。Turner幸存但瘫痪。两人另被控企图杀害证人与持枪实施暴力犯罪等罪名。检方说，邮件诈骗每项罪名最高可判20年，企图谋杀最高可判30年，枪支罪名最高可判终身监禁。
此案由联邦调查局、国税局刑事调查局与财政部税务监察局调查，助理联邦检察官 Kevin Reidy、Haoxiaohan Cai 与 Kevin J. Butler 负责起诉。起诉书只是指控，四名被告在被法庭证明有罪之前推定无罪。
（来源：联邦调查局）
Four Californians Charged in More Than $93 Million COVID Tax Credit Fraud; Two Also Accused of Shooting the Scheme's Leader
On June 26, 2025, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles, a city in Los Angeles County, California, unsealed a grand jury indictment charging four Californians with obtaining more than $93 million through false COVID-19 tax credit claims, the largest known scheme of its kind in the United States, with two of them also accused of shooting the scheme's organizer to silence him. All four were arrested that day. A Los Angeles federal grand jury had returned the indictment on June 11, 2025.
The defendants are Kristerpher Turner, 52, of Harbor City; Toriano Knox, 55, of Los Angeles; Kenya Jones, 46, of Compton; and Joyce Johnson, 55, of Victorville. They are charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud, mail fraud, and conspiracy to file false claims, among other counts.
Prosecutors said that from June 2020 to December 2024, the four filed false claims for sick and family leave wage tax credits under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act on behalf of at least 148 businesses, including sham businesses, seeking a total of about $247,956,938, and that the IRS actually issued Treasury checks of at least about $93 million. Turner charged each client 20 percent to 40 percent of the money obtained.
The indictment further alleges that on August 29, 2023, Knox and Jones, among others, shot Turner multiple times in broad daylight at an office park in Gardena in an attempt to kill him and keep him from cooperating. Turner survived but was left paralyzed. The two are also charged with attempted murder of a witness and using a firearm in a violent crime. Prosecutors said each mail fraud count carries up to 20 years, attempted murder up to 30 years, and the firearms count up to life in prison.
The case was investigated by the FBI, IRS Criminal Investigation, and the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Kevin Reidy, Haoxiaohan Cai, and Kevin J. Butler. An indictment is only an allegation, and all four defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.
(Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation)
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图片来源：图：位于洛杉矶市中心第一街与百老汇交界的美国法院大楼。Daniel L. Lu 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The United States Courthouse at First Street and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. Photo by Daniel L. Lu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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