Tax preparer to serve nearly five years in prison for defrauding IRS out of millions

A St. Pete tax preparer falsified documents to file returns claiming unearned refunds for clients.

  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 11:20 a.m. July 22, 2022
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A St. Petersburg tax preparer has been sentenced to four years and nine months in federal prison for filing false tax returns for clients that netted more than $5.2 million in unearned refunds.

Eurich Z. Griffin III must pay $1.6 million in restitution in addition to the nearly five years he’ll serve in a to-be determined federal facility.

 

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