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Another Person Pleads Guilty In $1M Tax Refund Scam Another Person Pleads Guilty In $1M Tax Refund Scam
Another Person Pleads Guilty In $1M Tax Refund Scam One more defendant accused of belonging to a ring that used identities stolen from residents of Puerto Rican and elsewhere to obtain fraudulent tax refunds has pleaded guilty, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Wellington Feliz, 36, of the Bronx, was charged with theft of government property and aggravated identity theft. Feliz admitted that he and the others in the scam received more than $1 million fraudulent income tax refunds using the stolen identities, which they used to fill out 1040 tax returns. The scammers falsified information such as wages earned and the amount of taxes withheld …

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by Paul Milo