{"id":5957,"date":"2026-10-15T06:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/four-texans-charged-in-200-million-tax-fraud-scheme\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T06:09:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T11:09:03","slug":"four-texans-charged-in-200-million-tax-fraud-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/four-texans-charged-in-200-million-tax-fraud-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Texans Charged in $200 Million Tax Fraud Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> DALLAS, TX \u2013 October 15, 2026 (STL.News) Texans \u2013 Fraud \u2013 Prosecutors say four Texas residents have been indicted on federal charges stemming from an alleged illegal tax shelter operation that concealed more than $1.5 billion in income and caused an estimated federal tax loss exceeding $200 million. The U.S. Department of Justice announced the charges Wednesday, October 14, after a federal grand jury in Dallas returned a 24-count indictment on September 22, 2026. The defendants \u2013 Duncan John MacDonald, Sarah Duren, Richard Ronald Cayce, and Thomas Weickgenant \u2014 are accused of promoting and selling a fraudulent trust arrangement<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/four-texans-charged-in-200-million-tax-fraud-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS, TX \u2013 October 15, 2026 (STL.News) Texans \u2013 Fraud \u2013 Prosecutors say four Texas residents have been indicted on federal charges stemming from an alleged illegal tax shelter operation that concealed more than $1.5 billion in income and caused&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5959,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5957\/revisions\/5959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}