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How a Franklin CPA Turned Client Trust Into a $4.6M Tax Fraud
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Subscribe18 DEC 2025 / ACCOUNTING & TAXES
Jason Alexander Jerkins, owner of Jerkins Business Solutions in Franklin, Tennessee, has been sentenced to nine years in prison for defrauding clients and the US government out of approximately $4.6 million over a period of five years. Jerkins abused client trust and access to their financial data, initiating fraudulent wire transfers and preparing false tax returns to fund a lavish lifestyle.
It started the way plenty of accounting relationships do. Trust, passwords, a QuickBooks login, and a CPA who said, “I’ve got this.” Fast forward a few years, and that same trust turned into a nine-year federal sentence, roughly $4.6 million gone, an...
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