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Dallas Tax Preparer Headed To Prison, Ordered To Pay $11 Million For Filing Fake Tax Returns

Officials say Alma Jean Gilbert was sentenced to 3½ years.

(CBS News)

March 1, 2021

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) — A tax return preparer in Dallas has pled guilty to filing fraudulent income tax returns and is headed to prison.

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Officials say Alma Jean Gilbert was sentenced to 3½ years and ordered to pay $11.9 million in restitution for the crimes.

Gilbert, 54, admitted to aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false tax return in October 2019.

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