Three People Indicted in Refund Scheme, Used Stolen IDs to Net Nearly $1 Million

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—A federal grand jury indicted three Sacramento women Feb. 23 on 40 criminal counts for their alleged scheme to obtain nearly $1 million in tax refunds by filing false tax returns based on stolen identities, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California said (U.S. v. Woods).

Nadiyah Muhammad Woods, Nakia Renee Vaugh, and Tomisha Lee McKinnie allegedly used stolen identities and Turbo Tax, the online tax preparation software, to file more than 280 false returns online with total refund claims of $1.3 million from January 2010 to January 2012.

The trio received $962,079 in federal ...