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A Wheat Ridge accountant was sentenced to 18 months in prison for preparing false tax returns as part of a massive tax-evasion scheme, officials said Friday.
Lynden Bridges was sentenced for his role in Anderson’s Ark & Associates, an anti-tax organization that helped members file bogus tax deductions totaling $120 million from 1997 to 2001. Bridges pleaded guilty in May.
Tara LaGrand, of Naples, Fla., was sentenced to 24 months in prison, officials said Friday. Six other Anderson’s Ark accountants, including James and Pamela Moran of Montrose, were convicted by a federal jury in Seattle in December and sentenced to prison terms of seven to 20 years.
