A father and daughter found how much prison time you get with a $3.4 million tax fraud
Daddy-Daughter tax fraudsters Kenneth Edmomson and Danielle Edmonson learned how much time a $3.4 million tax fraud can buy when they were sentenced in Fort Lauderdale federal court.
At least in U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenberg’s court, the money to time conversion worked out to six years for Boynton Beach resident Danielle Edmonson, and four years, three months for Lauderdale Lakes’ Kenneth Edmonson. On Thursday, Judge Rosenberg also assigned $223,898 restitution to Edmonson the younger and $5,000 to her father.
That’s after Danielle, 35, was convicted on four counts of filing false, fictitious and fraudulent claims; two counts of mail fraud; and one count of false statement. Kenneth, 51, went down on two counts of filing false, fraudulent, and fictitious claims; one count of mail fraud; and one count of false statements.
So, the Edmonsons took a shot at big money by trying to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, got caught, went to trial and were convicted of several crimes — but got sentenced only to a little over one year per count.
The MBA Danielle owns didn’t seem to be used planning a scheme with the simplistic bluntness of the concrete Kenneth delivered on one of his jobs. Just lie large about how much you made and paid in taxes.
At trial, prosecutors proved Danielle filed tax returns claiming she paid $145 million in taxes over the years 2015, 2016 and 2017. Despite no documentation backing up the fib, the Department of Treasury sent Danielle a check for over $2.4 million in Sept. 4, 2017.
Later that month, Kenneth Edmonson asking for a refund of $725,111. Kenneth also submitted forms claiming he’d paid large amounts of withholding taxes without any evidence to support those claims. He didn’t get what he wanted — he got more: a Treasury check for $734,266.
This story was originally published February 24, 2020 at 6:21 AM.
