Tax Fraud: Kioni Dogan Charging With The Unemployment Fraud Indictment

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Kioni Dogan Charging With The Unemployment Fraud Indictment

<h2>Former Stockton Woman Indicted with Others in Two Fraud Conspiracies<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>SACRAMENTO&comma; Calif&period; — On Thursday&comma; October 13&comma; 2016&comma; a federal grand jury returned two indictments charging Kioni Dogan&comma; 36&comma; of Las Vegas and formerly of Stockton&comma; with a total of 21 fraud counts related to claims for unemployment benefits and tax refunds&comma; Acting U&period;S&period; Attorney Phillip A&period; Talbert announced&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The unemployment fraud indictment&comma; charges Dogan&comma; along with Gloria Harris&comma; 56&comma; of Stockton&comma; and Lavonda Bailey&comma; 34&comma; of Las Vegas&comma; with one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud&period; It also charges Dogan with 15 counts of mail fraud&period; According to court documents&comma; Dogan operated a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;fictitious employer” scheme&period; Dogan created an employer with the California Employment Development Department &lpar;EDD&rpar; that was fictitious and did not conduct any business&period; Dogan then caused the submission of information to the EDD falsely indicating that various persons were employed by the fictitious entity&period; Dogan subsequently filed unemployment claims in the names of the fake employees&period; Harris and Bailey are among the individuals who collected the fraudulent benefits&comma; both in their own names and in the names of other fake employees&period; The total loss to the California EDD is alleged to be over &dollar;2 million&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This is the third indictment returned as a result of the unemployment fraud investigation&period; On September 15&comma; 2016&comma; Herbert Alexander&comma; 69&comma; of Stockton was charged with unemployment fraud&period; On December 30&comma; 2015&comma; Deborah Hollimon of Stockton and West Memphis&comma; Arkansas&comma; was charged with unemployment fraud and identity theft&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The tax fraud indictment charges Dogan and Antonia L&period; Brasley&comma; 47&comma; of Stockton&comma; with one count of conspiracy to submit false claims for tax refunds&period; It also charges Dogan with four individual counts of submitting false claims&period; According to court documents&comma; from May 2011 through April 2012&comma; Dogan and Brasley participated in a conspiracy to submit false tax returns to the IRS by obtaining personal identifying information from family&comma; friends&comma; and others&comma; and then submitting returns seeking refunds to which the people listed on the returns were not entitled&period; To pursue the refunds&comma; false statements were placed on the returns regarding income&comma; withholding from income&comma; and gambling losses&comma; with fraudulent supporting tax forms known as W2-Gs&period; Dogan is also charged with making false claims in connection with four returns filed in January 2012&comma; each seeking thousands of dollars in tax refunds&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The unemployment fraud case is the product of an investigation by the U&period;S&period; Department of Labor&comma; the California Employment Development Department&comma; and the U&period;S&period; Postal Inspection Service&period; Assistant U&period;S&period; Attorney Jared C&period; Dolan is prosecuting the case&period; The tax fraud case was the product of an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation&period; Assistant U&period;S&period; Attorney Christopher S&period; Hales is prosecuting the case&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If convicted of the unemployment benefits fraud&comma; Dogan&comma; Harris&comma; and Bailey face a maximum statutory penalty of 20 years in prison and a &dollar;250&comma;000 fine as to each count&period; If convicted in the tax fraud case of conspiracy to submit false claims&comma; Dogan and Bralsey each face a maximum statutory penalty of 10 years in prison and a &dollar;250&comma;000 fine&period; If convicted on the tax-related false claims counts&comma; Dogan faces a maximum statutory penalty of five years in prison and a &dollar;250&comma;000 fine for each count&period; Any sentence&comma; however&comma; would be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of any applicable statutory factors and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines&comma; which take into account a number of variables&period; The charges are only allegations&semi; the defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;justice&period;gov&sol;usao-edca&sol;pr&sol;former-stockton-woman-indicted-others-two-fraud-conspiracies">Original PressReleases&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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