A Garden Grove-based tax preparer who cheated the Internal Revenue Service out of nearly $5 million was sentenced Monday to almost three years in federal prison.
Michael Hung Lee, 70, of Garden Grove pleaded guilty in July to one count of conspiracy to aid and assist in preparing false tax returns.
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter sentenced Lee to 34 months in prison and ordered him to pay $4.9 million in restitution.
Lee, who owned the 1040 U.S. Tax Center Inc. business in Garden Grove, filed fraudulent income tax returns for his clients from 2014 through March 2018, prosecutors said.
Lee made false claims of capital gains or losses on returns, prosecutors said.
Lee’s stepdaughter Mylinh Thi Lee, 50, of Garden Grove, pleaded guilty in June to the same charge. She is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 7.
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