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OAKLAND Danville man gets 5 years for tax fraud
Henry K. Lee
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
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A Danville man was sentenced to five years in prison on Monday for preparing false tax returns as part of a scam in which he secured illegal refunds for clients in exchange for a share of the money.
Troy Holland, whose background included a short-lived 1995 training-camp stint with the 49ers and a job selling memberships to a health club, promoted himself as a certified public accountant -- although he wasn't one, authorities said. He would claim bogus losses on clients' tax returns and arrange to have their refunds sent to him so he could collect his share -- usually about half, authorities said.
Court documents showed Holland claimed losses in excess of $2 million for his clients.
A federal jury in Oakland convicted Holland in September on 27 of 43 counts and tossed out the remaining charges.
U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken ordered Holland to pay nearly $293,000 in restitution and told him never to prepare tax returns again, said Mark Lessler, spokesman for the Internal Revenue Service criminal investigation division.