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California Man Charged in IRS Tax Fraud Using Form 1041
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Subscribe27 AUG 2025 / ACCOUNTING & TAXES
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A Los Angeles man, Melvin Louis Hughes, has been indicted for allegedly scamming the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) out of around $6.2m. Claiming hundreds of millions in refunds through trusts and estates, mostly fictional, Hughes is also alleged to have recruited others to his fraudulent scheme, before IRS’s fraud detection machinery identified the irregularities.
Every tax season, accountants joke that somebody, somewhere, is trying to pull a fast one on the IRS. But one Los Angeles man allegedly took that quip and ran with it, straight into federal court. Picture this: claiming hundreds of millions in refunds by...
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