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How One Family Turned Trusts Into an $8.5M Tax Fraud Scheme
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Subscribe03 JUN 2026 / ACCOUNTING & TAXES
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The Texas-based Hunt family has been sentenced in a $8.5 million tax refund fraud case that involved fraudulent tax filings across multiple states. Brandon Hunt, the final defendant, along with his father David Hunt, twin brother Baylon Hunt, and half-brother Corey Burt, filed false tax returns in the names of trusts they controlled, received over $1.7 million before the scheme was shut down and were convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Tax fraud cases often start with a simple idea: if a refund check shows up, who's asking questions? For one Texas family, that thinking ended with prison terms, restitution orders, and a federal criminal case that stretched across multiple states. The rec...
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