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Skokie Man Led International Tax Fraud Scheme
A Skokie man was sentenced to 85 months in prison after claiming income tax refunds in the names of Romanian students who had visited the U.S., prosecutors say. The U.S. Department of Treasury is out more than $1.6 million.
A Skokie man has been sentenced to 85 months in prison and ordered to pay $1.6 million in restitution after directing more than 20 federal income tax refunds to his homeland in Romania, the U.S. Attorney's office for the Northern District of Illinois said on Monday. Ovidiu Isac, 31, of Skokie, claimed refunds in the names of Romanian citizens who had visited the U.S. on exchange student visas, authorities said. Isac will be subject to deportation after completing his sentence in the U.S. At least 470 false tax returns, typically claiming refunds between $4,000 and $7,000, were filed and resulted in a loss of more than $1.6 million to the U.S. Treasury during the conspiracy that spanned three tax years between 2007 and 2009. The returns …
