洛杉矶男子认罪：用空壳公司骗领新冠病假工资抵免逾933万美元
美国司法部加州中区联邦检察官办公室宣布，洛杉矶（Los Angeles）南部 Manchester Square 社区58岁男子 Darrick Wynell Brazier 10月21日在联邦法院认罪，承认一项邮件诈骗罪，承认以空壳公司骗取新冠疫情病假与家庭护理假税收抵免，实际从国税局（IRS）骗得约933.6万美元退税支票。
根据认罪协议，2022年7月至2023年12月，Brazier 使用报税软件向 IRS 提交虚假的941表，为名下两家只存在于纸面上的公司 DWB Holdings LLC 与 Brazier Transportation 申报抵免，谎称其向根本不存在的员工支付了病假工资。IRS 据此向这些空壳公司邮寄了美国财政部支票。他还协助至少六家不符合资格的客户企业提交虚假申报，客户骗领成功后向他支付回扣，他由此收取回扣共1,096,096美元，且从未就这些非法收入向 IRS 申报纳税。
检方称，Brazier 自营两家公司与六家客户企业合计试图骗取约11,514,618美元虚假退税，IRS 实际支付约9,336,130美元。此案由 IRS 刑事调查部门调查，助理联邦检察官 Haoxiaohan H. Cai 负责起诉。联邦地区法官 Michael W. Fitzgerald 已将量刑听证排定于2027年2月24日，Brazier 届时面临最高20年联邦监禁的法定刑期。
South Los Angeles Man Pleads Guilty: More Than $9.3 Million in Bogus COVID-19 Tax Credits Claimed Through Shell Companies
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California announced that Darrick Wynell Brazier, 58, of Manchester Square in South Los Angeles, pleaded guilty on October 21 to one count of mail fraud, admitting he fraudulently obtained more than $9.3 million through shell companies under a COVID-19 relief program that provided refundable employment tax credits for paid sick and family leave.
According to his plea agreement, from July 2022 to December 2023 Brazier used tax-filing software to submit fraudulent Forms 941 to the IRS for two entities held in his name, DWB Holdings LLC and Brazier Transportation, claiming credits for sick-leave wages the entities never paid to employees who never existed. The IRS relied on those filings to mail Treasury checks to the shell companies. Brazier also admitted assisting at least six ineligible client businesses with fraudulent filings in exchange for kickbacks, receiving $1,096,096 in kickbacks, and never reporting any of the unlawful income to the IRS.
In total, the filings for his two businesses and the six client businesses sought approximately $11,514,618 in fraudulent refunds, of which the IRS paid approximately $9,336,130. IRS Criminal Investigation investigated the case, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Haoxiaohan H. Cai is prosecuting it. U.S. District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald scheduled sentencing for February 24, 2027, at which Brazier will face a statutory maximum of 20 years in federal prison.
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