BISMARCK -- A 39-year-old Bismarck man who ran a tax service out of his apartment where he ran a tax fraud scam that cheated the government out of $140,741 will be on supervised release after serving time in jail in a sentence handed down Tuesday.
Solomon Lindsay, who has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of North Dakota, created a scheme where he would file tax returns on behalf of mainly family and friends and would include inflated income figures and false credits. The returns then requested a false refund.
Lindsay electronically filed the returns and deposited refunds in his personal account. Each taxpayer received a smaller refund than requested, while Lindsay skimmed substantial amounts of money for himself in the scheme he ran from 2009 to 2012.
U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland put Lindsay on three years of supervision plus ordered him to make restitution to the IRS for his conviction on three counts of tax fraud.
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