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4 Tampa Tax Preparers Get Prison Time

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Tax season is coming up soon and I don’t want you to get scammed. Remember you cannot trust everyone to do your taxes. Yes, you read the headline right “4 Tampa Tax Preparers Get Prison Time.”

Four tax preparers in The Tampa area were sentenced to prison

According to reports, these 4 suspect conspired to defraud the United States government by preparing false income tax returns which would increase their clients tax refunds.

The department of Justice tells us the suspects basically prepared false income tax returns for several of their clients. They claimed their clients owned businesses to increase their chances of claiming the income credit on their tax returns.

Who were these tax preparers?

Ashley Flournoy of Riverview was sentenced to two years in federal prison. St. Pete resident Jamica Nelms was sentenced  to three years. Capriesha Cummings, two and a half years, and Camille Harper to one year in federal prison. All women had the same charges.

Please know who is doing your taxes. You never want to be in a situation where you have to pay the Government back money after you have already spent it. Check reviews before you give people your personal information to do your taxes.
Happy Holidays, be safe!
4 Tampa Tax Preparers Get Prison Time

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Shandra “Babs” Littleton is a member of the WiLD Squad. She’s originally from Detroit but has spent most of her “grown-up” life in Fort Myers, Florida where she graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University. Babs loves to write about everything from Tampa concerts, to WiLD murders that happened in Florida, and her favorite businesses.

The 5 Most Dangerous Cities In Florida

We know how ominous “The most dangerous cities in Florida” sounds, but we think it’s important to know. The good news is out of a list of 100 dangerous cities in the U.S., only 5 in Florida made the list. Of those 5 cities, none of them cracked the top 50 in this updated study. A lot of people probably assume big metros like Miami, Tampa and Orlando made the list, but nope!

We got this information from Neighborhood Scout. Their analysis includes crimes reported by all agencies. They studied cities with 25,000 or more people, based on the number of violent crimes per 1,000 residents. Data used for this research are:

  1. The number of violent crimes reported to the FBI to have occurred in each city.
  2. Projections of violent crime rates based on prior years’ data.
  3. The population of each city.

Florida is known for some of the country’s most bizarre crimes. And while all of them may be dangerous, they may not qualify as “violent.” Driving a golf cart naked down I75, assault with food, and similar “Florida Man” crimes don’t fall into the FBI category.

If you want to see how other cities rank, click here for the full study.

Here are the most dangerous cities in Florida

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