A dad and daughter stole millions from the IRS. Here's how often such fraud happens.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The returns often were handwritten. The income — from lottery winnings and bonds — was fake. But the IRS shelled out $3.4 million to a Florida father and daughter before getting wise to the fraud.
Big-sum payouts from the IRS to individuals like the Edmonsons are rare when compared with the many other claims filed by illicit tax preparers or identity thieves. But such fraud still happens more often than you’d think, according to experts and government documents.
Danielle Takeila Edmonson, 35, of Boynton Beach, and Kenneth Roger Edmonson, 51, of Oakland Park, started filing a series of bogus tax returns in 2015. Court records show that, over the course of four years, the duo claimed the IRS owed them over $175 million in withheld income.
The IRS, which employs both automated and manual screening practices to ferret out fraud in tax returns, ended up paying out — and more than once. It sent Danielle Edmonson a check for $239,700 in 2015. In 2016, the government agency sent her a check for $2.5 million. In 2018, it paid her father almost three-quarters of $1 million.
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