In an indictment unsealed today, Teresa Marie Marty, of Pollock Pines, her daughter-in-law Rebecca Bandera-Marty of Shingle Springs, and Pamela Harris of Placerville, were charged with conspiring to defraud the United States, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service announced. [United States v. Marty, et. al., No. 2:13-CR-0217-TLN]
In addition to the conspiracy count, Marty is charged with 33 counts of false claims against the United States, and Bandera-Marty is also charged in 16 of these counts.
According to the indictment, in 2008 and 2009 Marty, Bandera-Marty, and Harris conspired to defraud the United States by filing at least 250 false individual federal income tax returns, claiming more than $60 million in false federal income tax refunds for clients in 26 states. In response to the false returns, the IRS erroneously issued more than 40 tax refunds, totaling more than $8 million, including a false refund for $277,832 for Marty’s own tax return.