DENVER—A tax preparer accused of fraudulently helping customers get more than $200,000 in tax refunds has been convicted of fraud charges.
A federal jury in Denver convicted 65-year-old Catherine Senninger of Ogden, Utah, on Friday of two counts of submitting false claims with tax returns and five counts of mail fraud. Jurors acquitted her of other charges.
Prosecutors say Senninger and others filed false tax information for customers of Grand Peak Mortgage and Financial Services Inc. and Olympia Financial and Tax Services Inc. in Aurora, Colo. The company received part of each refund as its fee.
Senninger is scheduled to be sentenced July 6.
Prosecutors say she also was convicted in 1992 in Utah on federal felony fraud charges.
