{"id":5960,"date":"2026-10-15T06:20:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T11:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/texas-tax-fraud-scheme-sends-four-to-prison\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T06:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T11:20:41","slug":"texas-tax-fraud-scheme-sends-four-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/texas-tax-fraud-scheme-sends-four-to-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tax Fraud Scheme Sends Four to Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Five tax preparers sentenced in federal case involving fabricated business expenses, fraudulent refunds and millions of dollars in tax losses. TEXAS \u2013 October 15, 2026 (STL.News) A Texas tax return preparer was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison for participating in a fraudulent tax-preparation scheme that cost the federal government millions of dollars, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Sivagami Chidambaram was sentenced October 7, 2026, for her role in a conspiracy involving a tax preparation business owner and several employees who submitted federal income tax returns containing fabricated business expenses. The Justice Department announced the sentencing<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/texas-tax-fraud-scheme-sends-four-to-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five tax preparers sentenced in federal case involving fabricated business expenses, fraudulent refunds and millions of dollars in tax losses. TEXAS \u2013 October 15, 2026 (STL.News) A Texas tax return preparer was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison for&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5960","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\/5960","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=5960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5962,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions\/5962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}