The tables have turned for an IRS officer from Staten Island who is reportedly accused of fudging his own tax returns.
The Staten Island Advance reports 38-year-old James C. Brewer, a revenue officer assigned to the IRS office in Edison, N.J., was arrested in Las Vegas for altering his personal income tax returns and neglecting to account for money he received from outside businesses he operated, according to federal prosecutors.
Brewer is charged in a 28-count indictment with wire fraud, mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, perjury and filing false tax returns, the paper reports.
The indictment reportedly says he ran two outside businesses that went against IRS regulations and did not properly report the additional income. He allegedly prepared tax returns for cash and sold a variety of items on eBay, failing to report the former and underreporting the latter.
Officials said he also claimed false dependents on his own returns and his clients’ returns, diverted portions of clients’ refunds to himself, and lied in federal tax court about his residency, according to the Advance.
Brewer is scheduled to be arraigned Friday. It was not clear if he had an attorney.
