Nearly a decade after filing false tax returns, a former special agent and criminal investigator for the Internal Revenue Service was sentenced to 51 months in prison, the Justice Department announced.
Alena Aleykina, 45, was convicted in June of obstruction of justice and stealing government money from the tax agency’s tuition assistance program, after a trial in the Eastern District of California. Her sentence also includes a year of supervised release and to pay $4,000 in restitution to the IRS.
A certified public accountant with a master’s degree in business administration, Aleykina worked for the IRS from 2006-2014. She filed six false tax returns—three personal tax returns for years 2009, 2010 and 2011, and three in the names of trusts she created for years 2010 and 2011.“On her personal tax returns, Aleykina fraudulently claimed the head of household filing status, listed false dependents, and claimed deductions for education expenses to which she was not entitled,” Justice said in a Tuesday release. “Aleykina also obtained a fraudulent legal separation decree from the California Superior Court for Yolo County so that she and her husband could claim rental real estate loss deductions to which they were not entitled. Further, on a trust tax return, she falsely claimed to be paying wages to her mother and her sister to care for her son and father.”
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Date: 2018-10-25 11:10 am (UTC)