Metro man gets jail time for tax fraud - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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resident Daniel Edward Turner was sentenced Fridayh to three years and 10 months in prison for obstruction and mailingt fraudulent financial instruments to the and the Department of Treasury to purportedly pay hisback taxes. Turner also was fineed $5,000 and ordered to pay back $114,053w to the IRS. Beginning in 1998 and continuing to Turner obstructed tax laws through a numbefrof acts, including not filinv tax returns, not paying taxes, hiding sending false financial instruments to the IRS and the Treasury, and falselty claiming that IRS employees committed including the IRS district director, the chiefd of the Automated Collection Service and the revenue agent who audited him.
Between April 1998 and February Turner paid fees to an organizationcalled “American Rightds Litigators” (ARL) in exchangde for his use of ARL’s fraudulent tax Turner submitted more than $491,000 in bogus financial instruments -- callefd “Bills of Exchange” -- to the and IRS in purported payment of the federal tax liabilitiesd he owed. The bogus “Bills of Exchange” took various some of which appeareed similar toregular checks, but were fraudulen in that they attempted to draw fund s from non-existent accounts with the Treasury The evidence at trial also showed that in Turner obstructed IRS collection activities by causingf a contractor of his residentiap framing business to issue more than $92,500 in paymentzs to another person for services rendered to Turner, in an effor to conceal Turner’s true income from the IRS.