{"id":5963,"date":"2026-10-15T06:55:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T11:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/florida-man-gets-3-years-in-4-2m-tax-fraud-scheme\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T06:55:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T11:55:05","slug":"florida-man-gets-3-years-in-4-2m-tax-fraud-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/florida-man-gets-3-years-in-4-2m-tax-fraud-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Man Gets 3 Years in $4.2M Tax Fraud Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> MIAMI, FL \u2013 October 15, 2026 (STL.News) Florida \u2013 Fraud \u2013 A Miami man was sentenced to three years in federal prison after participating in a fraudulent tax refund scheme that sought to obtain more than $4.2 million from the U.S. Treasury through false federal income tax returns involving trusts he claimed to control. McDonald Preval, of Miami, was sentenced October 6, 2026, to 36 months in prison after pleading guilty to one count of filing a false tax return, according to an October 14 announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Federal authorities said Preval submitted numerous<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/florida-man-gets-3-years-in-4-2m-tax-fraud-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI, FL \u2013 October 15, 2026 (STL.News) Florida \u2013 Fraud \u2013 A Miami man was sentenced to three years in federal prison after participating in a fraudulent tax refund scheme that sought to obtain more than $4.2 million from the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5963","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\/5963","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=5963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5965,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions\/5965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}