Indictment v — United States v. Bassett (Dkt. 1)

Summary

A grand jury indictment in United States v. Zachary Bassett, Mason Warr, and COS Accounting & Tax LLC, dba 1099 Tax Pros, Case 2:23-cr-00039-HCN, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, filed February 1, 2023 as Document 1. Count 1 charges conspiracy to defraud the United States under 18 U.S.C. § 371, Counts 2-14 charge wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1343, and Counts 15-25 charge aiding and assisting in filing false tax returns under 26 U.S.C. § 7206(2). It alleges that from at least April 2020 through at least August 2021 the defendants prepared Forms 7200 and 941 falsely claiming the Employee Retention Credit and sick and family leave credits for clients, often single-member LLCs of independent contractors. It states participants submitted more than one thousand forms claiming in excess of $11,000,000 in credits.

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