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| Michigan AG charges seven in fraud case |
| By PRNewswire |
| Published: 02/14/2005 |
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Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox announced last week that his office has charged seven people with the felony of conducting a criminal enterprise for attempting to cheat the State of Michigan out of more than one million dollars by filing false Homestead Property Tax Claims. Each defendant faces 20 years in prison. The scheme involved completing tax claim forms with false information, including fake addresses. The defendants then filed change of address forms at the post office so that when checks were issued by the Department of Treasury, they would be forwarded to a post office box established by the defendants. Their efforts were discovered when a postal clerk recognized the addresses as being non-existent and saw that mail to those addresses was all being forwarded to the same post office box. "Given Michigan's current budget crises, it is more important than ever that my office watch out for every taxpayer dollar," Cox said. "In 2004, we recovered $284 million for the State of Michigan. Due to the sharp eyes and quick police work of the postal and law enforcement employees, we successfully safeguarded yet another million." The case, which spanned a year, was the result of work by the Michigan State Police Major Case Team in coordination with Attorney General Investigators. Those charged include: Dale Morris, 42, an inmate in a state correctional facility; David Bullard, 42, of Inkster; Richard Custard, 34, an inmate in a state correctional facility; Sherry Drake, 42, of Ferndale; Linda Custard, 56, of Detroit; Darieus Moye, 26, an inmate in a state correctional facility; and Mary Ann Moye, 52, of Doerun, Georgia. All seven defendants have been arraigned in Sault Sainte Marie's 91st District Court and face a preliminary examination. |
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