In
Bronx Tax Fraud EITC Case
Corrupted Drives and Now Arias
Supervision Continued
By Matthew
Russell Lee
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 20 – Nine defendants
from The Bronx and as many
lawyers showed up at 5 pm on
Friday, May 17, 2019 for an
IRS Earned Income Tax Credit
fraud prosecution before
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of
New York Judge
Sidney H.
Stein. Inner
City Press
was there.
In the EITC
case the problem of
the day was
discovery, specifically
getting all
the
defendants'
lawyers copies
of the hard drives
with the
allegedly
fraudulent tax
filings
on them. One
lawyer said
she couldn't
decrypt the
data; it was
said that the
protective
order, that
the defendants
can't take
the information
home to review
it, made thing
much more time
consuming.
The request
for ninety days until
motions,
including one
for a
bill of
particulars, are due was
rejected. But
Judge Stein
gave them
until July 17,
with the
government's
response due
on August 7
and replies on
August
16. Time was
of course
excluded, the
interest of the
public in a
speedy trial
being outweighed.
In part, a
corrupt City
employee is
said to have
sold
children's
information to
tax preparing
businesses,
each of which
spawned
others, all
throughout the
Bronx
From
September 12,
2022: "ARIEL
JIMENEZ, a/k/a
“Melo,” was
sentenced to
12 years in
prison in
connection
with his
leading role
in a broad tax
fraud and
identity theft
conspiracy and
his actions to
launder the
proceeds of
his
crimes.
United States
District Judge
Sidney H.
Stein imposed
today’s
sentence."
On
August 7, 2023
the US
Attorney's
Office filed
seeking to
dismiss a
petition by
Ashley Medina
asserting an
interest in
properties to
be forfeited
in this
prosecution,
at 2352
University
Avenue, 4570
Henry Hudson
Parkey and
2500 Bailey
Avenue, all in
The Bronx and,
the US says,
bought with
the proceeds
of crime...
On
April 19,
2024, Judge
Stein denied
co-defendant
Guillermo
Arias'
application to
terminate his
supervised
release.
The case is US v.
Jimenez, et al.., 18-cr-879
(Stein)
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