Indictment — United States v. Shreiteh (Dkt. 1, N.D. Ill.)

Summary

An indictment returned by the Special November 2023 Grand Jury in United States v. Sharhabeel Shreiteh, Case No. 1:25-cr-00071, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, before Judge John J. Tharp, Jr., filed February 3, 2025 as Document #: 1. It charges violations of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7206(2), aiding and assisting the preparation of false tax returns. A table lists each count by taxpayer initials, tax year, filing date and the false item, such as false Schedule A expenses and Schedule C losses, including false Schedule A expenses of $35,465 on a 2019 return.

Summary drafted by a model from the document's text below and checked by script against that text before publication. It is a navigation aid, not a reading of what the document proves. Where AI is used

Record facts

Full text

BC         Case: 1:25-cr-00071 Document #: 1 Filed: 02/03/25 Page 1 of 5 PageID #:1

                                                                     FIL/2E0D
                                                                            25
                                                                                             GMM
                                                                          2/3
                           UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT                . BRUTO   N
                                                            THOMA.SDGIS T R ICT COURT
                           NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS CLERK, U .S
                                EASTERN DIVISION

     UNITED STATES OF AMERICA                    Case No.:

                   v.                            Violation: Title 26, United States
                                                 Code, Section 7206(2)
     SHARHABEEL SHREITEH                              1:25-cr-00071
                                                      Judge John J. Tharp, Jr
                                COUNT ONE             Magistrate Judge Young B. Kim
                                                      RANDOM / Cat. 3
           The SPECIAL NOVEMBER 2023 GRAND JURY charges:

           1.     At times material to this indictment:

                  a.    The Internal Revenue Service was part of the United States

     Department of the Treasury and was responsible for, among other things,

     administering the tax laws of the United States, collecting income taxes, and issuing

     income tax refunds to eligible taxpayers.

                  b.    The IRS allowed taxpayers who were entitled to a refund of

     federal individual income taxes to claim that refund by signing and filing in person,

     by mailing, or by electronically filing a U.S. Individual Income Tax Form 1040

     (hereafter “Form 1040”).

                  c.    The information which the Form 1040 required the taxpayer to

     provide included, but was not limited to, the taxpayer’s name and address, social

     security number, filing status, number of dependents, total income for the tax year,

     the amount of federal income tax withheld during the tax year, and the amount of

     tax due or refund claimed. Depending on the circumstances and submissions of the

       Case: 1:25-cr-00071 Document #: 1 Filed: 02/03/25 Page 2 of 5 PageID #:2




particular taxpayer, various other schedules and forms, including a Schedule A, also

were required to be attached to the Form 1040.

             d.     A Schedule A is an official Internal Revenue Service schedule that

is used by taxpayers to report their itemized deductions like mortgage interest and

medical deductions and calculate the itemized deductions for which a taxpayer is

eligible. The schedule accompanies Form 1040 – U.S. Individual Income Tax Return,

and the amount reported on the Schedule A flows through to the first page of the

Form 1040. The itemized deduction amount claimed on Schedule A reduces a

taxpayer’s tax due and owing.

             e.     A taxpayer’s total income also included any gain or loss from a

business. Taxpayers were required to report any such gain or loss from a business on

their Form 1040 and to attach a Schedule C that listed, among other things, the

business’s gross receipts and expenses.

             f.     The IRS considered information contained in Forms 1040, and

accompanying schedules and forms, including but not limited to Schedule A and

Schedule C, in determining a taxpayer’s tax due and in issuing a tax refund. After

receiving this information, the IRS issued a refund to the taxpayer if there were no

outstanding tax liabilities or other federally authorized deductions on record with the

IRS.

             g.     An individual taxpayer could request that a qualified and

registered tax preparation officer prepare applicable forms and schedules on the




                                          2

      Case: 1:25-cr-00071 Document #: 1 Filed: 02/03/25 Page 3 of 5 PageID #:3




taxpayer’s behalf, and this tax preparer could submit the forms and schedules

necessary to complete the taxpayer’s United States Individual Income Tax Return.

             h.    Defendant SHARHABEEL SHREITEH owned and operated tax

return preparation businesses under the name “Gold Star Financial” and “Financial

Savvy Inc.” from a commercial office in Palos Hills, Illinois. SHREITEH’s business

included preparing federal individual income tax returns on behalf of individual

taxpayers.

             i.    While preparing tax returns through his business, defendant

SHREITEH presented himself to clients as a person trained in and knowledgeable

about the preparation and filing of federal income tax returns.

      2.     On or about the dates set forth below, in the Northern District of

Illinois, Eastern Division, and elsewhere,

                            SHARHABEEL SHREITEH,

defendant herein, as set forth below, willfully aided and assisted in, and procured,

counseled, and advised, the preparation and presentation to the IRS of individual

returns and claims on behalf of the Taxpayers listed below, namely, U.S. Individual

Income Tax Returns, Form 1040, for tax years listed below. The returns were false

and fraudulent as to material matters listed below, including in that defendant

SHREITEH caused the false representations regarding the Taxpayers’ medical and

dental expenses, tax payments, charitable deductions, and business losses in

Schedule A and Schedule C forms, as listed below, when, as defendant SHREITEH




                                             3

        Case: 1:25-cr-00071 Document #: 1 Filed: 02/03/25 Page 4 of 5 PageID #:4




knew at the time, these statements were false. Each false and fraudulent return

listed below constitutes a separate count.

 COUNT        TAX-      RETURN       FILING      FALSE INFORMATION
              PAYER                  DATE
 One          JA        2018         4/4/2019    False Schedule C Losses of $3,388
 Two          JA        2019         7/11/2020   False Schedule A Expenses of $35,465
 Three        JA        2020         3/21/2021   False Schedule A Expenses of $23,784
 Four         JA        2021         4/4/2022    False Schedule A Expenses of $39,517
                                                 False Schedule C Losses of $27,740
 Five         JF        2018         2/2/2019    False Schedule A Expenses of $12,684
                                                 False Schedule C Losses of $4,574
 Six          JF        2019         2/10/2020   False Schedule A Expenses of $18,443
                                                 False Schedule C Losses of $4,118
 Seven        JF        2020         2/11/2021   False Schedule A Expenses of $23,312
 Eight        JF        2021         2/15/2022   False Schedule A Expenses of $33,186
 Nine         MC        2019         1/29/2020   False Schedule A Expenses of $8,158
 Ten          MC        2020         2/20/2021   False Schedule A Expenses of $17,205
 Eleven       MC        2022         1/21/2023   False Schedule A Expenses of $6,170
 Twelve       PG        2019         2/20/2020   False Schedule A Expenses of $12,466
 Thirteen     PG        2020         4/15/2021   False Schedule A Expenses of $39,836
 Fourteen     PG        2021         3/4/2022    False Schedule A Expenses of $15,445
 Fifteen      TR        2019         2/15/2020   False Schedule A Expenses of $9,137
 Sixteen      TR        2020         3/11/2021   False Schedule A Expenses of $22,126
 Seven-       TR        2021         4/1/2022    False Schedule A Expenses of $48,682
 teen
 Eighteen     AA        2020         3/27/2021   False Schedule A Expenses of $17,616
 Nineteen     WB        2020         4/22/2022   False Schedule A Expenses of $37,244
 Twenty       NO        2020         4/14/2022   False Schedule A Expenses of $17,097
 Twenty-      NO        2021         4/14/2022   False Schedule A Expenses of $23,401
 One
 Twenty-      CS        2020         4/4/2021    False Schedule A Expenses of $21,824
 Two
 Twenty-      CS        2021         3/4/2022    False Schedule A Expenses of $33,572
 Three
 Twenty-      MW        2021         2/11/2022   False Schedule A Expenses of $60,220
 Four


                                             4

    Case: 1:25-cr-00071 Document #: 1 Filed: 02/03/25 Page 5 of 5 PageID #:5




COUNT      TAX-      RETURN        FILING      FALSE INFORMATION
           PAYER                   DATE
Twenty-    JS        2020                      False Schedule A Expenses of $60,876
Five

     In violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7206(2).


                                             A TRUE BILL:



                                             ________________________________
                                             FOREPERSON



_________________________________
ACTING UNITED STATES ATTORNEY




                                         5

File and source

File

gov.uscourts.ilnd.472949.1.0.pdf

Size

176,466 bytes

SHA-256

c89d327ee7d2b319bbd310bc0bb975bbc8d5b113e469bf6d6d12fd3a186e51fa

Our copy

gov.uscourts.ilnd.472949.1.0.pdf

Original

archive.org