NY Man Arrested on ID and Tax Fraud Charges

Gary Rogers, of East Meadow, N.Y., was arrested today after being charged with identity theft and tax fraud after filing more than 200 false tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Justice Department and IRS announced.

Rogers was named in a federal criminal complaint that alleged he used stolen identification information to make false claims against the United States government by filing false tax returns to obtain fraudulent refunds. According to the affidavit in support of the criminal complaint filed in United States District Court in Brooklyn, Rogers filed approximately 200 federal income tax returns from 2004 through 2010 using the identification information of others. The complaint alleges that Rogers sought approximately $4,393,356 in fraudulent refunds over the six year period.

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