A California tax preparer who helped steal $44 million in pandemic loans and also bilked the IRS on behalf of pro athletes has earned a 10-year prison sentence, one of the lengthiest issued so far for pandemic fraud.
Quin Ngoc Rudin, 55, was a convicted felon already out on supervised release when he used his business, Mana Tax Services, to file false tax returns for at least nine athletes.
That fraud cost the feds at least $19 million, prosecutors said, and he and his co-conspirators earned $3.1 million for themselves.
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