Okemos woman gets 10 years in prison after filing $4.5M in false tax returns
GRAND RAPIDS - An Okemos woman has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for defrauding the government out of $3.6 million by filing false tax returns.
Callista Suzena Chiwocha, 64, and her late husband Tapera Albert Chiwocha caused 3,228 false tax returns to be filed on behalf of others through their company Human Services Associates, LLC, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, the couple's company was created to conceal the scam to help people get "Obama stimulus money." The couple was investigated for six years, after receiving complaints about the couple.
Before starting the "scheme" records showed the Chiwochas "were delinquent on their home mortgage payments and had been frequenting casinos," according to the release.
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