A federal judge handed down prison sentences to members of a family on Thursday for their parts in a multimillion-dollar tax refund scheme that siphoned more than $1.7 million out of the IRS, the Justice Department said in a statement.
David Hunt of Arlington, Texas, received 92 months in federal prison. His son, Baylon Hunt, also from Arlington, was sentenced to 38 months. Baylon’s half-brother, Corey Burt, formerly of Long Beach, Mississippi, received the longest term at 94 months.
All three men were ordered jointly to pay more than $1.7 million in restitution to the United States.
The prison terms and financial penalties, which were handed down in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, complete a years-long investigation and trial that revealed the ways in which the family used fictitious trusts to pursue more than $8.5 million in fraudulent refunds….