3 charged with IRS fraud

3 charged with IRS fraud

Staff report

WARREN

A Warren Township man was in federal court in Columbus on Monday to face charges that he and a Columbus couple used Social Security numbers from a U.S. Securities and Exchange Web site to file more than 100 false income-tax returns and other frauds totaling $600,000.

The federal documents charge Daniel M. Bossard of Warren Township and Delmar Williams and Kenyetta E. Williams of Columbus.

The documents don’t say where Bossard lives, but he used a vacant address in a mobile-home park at 2018 Tod Avenue Southwest to collect some of the proceeds of the theft, an investigator with the Internal Revenue Service said.

All three are charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, identity theft and filing false claims against the U.S. government.

Lt. Don Bishop of the Warren Township Police Department said Bossard is from Warren Township, and Delmar and Kenyetta Williams are formerly from the Warren area.

Investigators raided a home on Chesterton Lane in Columbus where Delmar and Kenyetta Williams lived with their four children in March 2007, the investigator said in a criminal complaint.

Investigators found computer equipment there belonging to the Williamses and Bossard indicating that the three had acquired Social Security numbers from a SEC Web site, used them to open bank and credit-card accounts and file fraudulent income-tax returns.

The offenses allegedly occurred between Oct. 1, 2006, and March 31, 2007, the investigator said.

The income tax returns were intended to produce income of $582,597, the investigator said, adding that the three used some of the returns to apply for Refund Anticipation Loans with federally insured banks.

The three then had the money from the loans deposited into a bank account in the name of two victims and then paid out to prepaid debit cards that the three then cashed at locations in Columbus, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, the investigator said.