A PHILADELPHIA police officer and his brother have been accused of running a tax-fraud conspiracy that submitted more than $500,000 in false claims to the IRS.
A federal indictment unsealed Friday alleges that Officer Jose Tirado, 38, and his brother, Victor Tirado, 36, prepared more than 100 false tax returns in from 2008 to 2010.
The pair allegedly obtained names, birth dates and Social Security numbers and used them to prepare fraudulent returns. In some cases, they recruited the people whose information they had obtained and listed fake dependents or falsely inflated income in order to obtain refunds like the earned-income-tax credit, according to the indictment.
