Tax Preparer Gets Year for False Filings
A Van Nuys tax preparer has been sentenced to one year in prison for filing false federal income tax returns, authorities said Tuesday.
Kenneth Richard Hunt, 68, was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court by Judge Dean D. Pregerson, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for U.S. Atty. Nora M. Manella.
Hunt pleaded guilty earlier this year to charges that he used names of former clients and the names of his former wife and stepdaughter without their permission, as well as fabricated names on three tax returns for 1992, Mrozek said.
The false returns generated a total of $1,860 in tax refunds that Hunt had sent to his home address in Van Nuys, Mrozek said.
Hunt falsified the returns while operating a tax preparation service on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, Mrozek said, adding that Hunt later moved his business to South Gate.
Much of the evidence against Hunt was seized from his Sunset Boulevard office in February 1993 during a search by agents from the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division, Mrozek said.
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