DENVER—A Denver tax-service operator has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison and ordered to pay $283,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to charges of filing bogus tax returns for refunds.
Thomas W. Quintin has also been ordered to forfeit $132,000 and a car that prosecutors said he got through the scheme.
The 60-year-old Quintin was sentenced Monday.
Prosecutors say he filed hundreds of tax returns claiming refunds of less than $1,000 each, using Social Security numbers “of unknown origin.”
He pleaded guilty to misusing Social Security numbers, filing false claims against the government, wire fraud, aiding and abetting, and violating probation.
Prosecutors say Quintin ran the tax scheme while on probation for tax evasion and mail fraud.
