Tampa tax fraudster sentenced to 5 years

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 4:45 p.m. August 14, 2013
  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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TAMPA - James Early Smiley, 41, was sentenced to five years and one month in federal prison and a forfeiture money judgment of $98,719.65, for committing stolen identity tax refund fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida.

 

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