Did this guy itemize?
Nearly $3 billion. That's the tax refund requested this year by a convicted armed robber in Pompano Beach, according to a federal indictment.Something tells me Cameron wanted to go back to jail. Otherwise he is just incredibly dumb.Prosecutors say Willie Bernard Cameron, 41, filed three bogus IRS 1040 tax returns in May claiming he was owed refunds of $52,918.97, $360,000 and $2.975 billion. Cameron asked for the money after his March release from federal prison, where he was incarcerated for a 1999 armed robbery in Mobile, Ala., prosecutors said.
A federal grand jury in Fort Lauderdale Is your Fort Lauderdale restaurant clean? - Click Here. returned the indictment Thursday.
In October, U.S. District Judge James Cohn revoked Cameron's supervised release and sentenced him to an additional three years for violating probation. If convicted of tax fraud, Cameron could face another 15 years in prison.
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Comments (6)
A federal grand ju... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Anon Y. Mous | December 12, 2008 10:34 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
That's one way to put it...
1. Posted by Anon Y. Mous | December 12, 2008 10:34 AM |
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Posted on December 12, 2008 10:34
2. Posted by G. | December 12, 2008 10:44 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Billy, are you still drinking on the job? ;-)
2. Posted by G. | December 12, 2008 10:44 AM |
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Posted on December 12, 2008 10:44
3. Posted by G. | December 12, 2008 10:51 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Oh, You've got a glitch in your comments section it was/is telling me I've made to many comments or I've been banned then suddenly they all went thru, sorry about that.
3. Posted by G. | December 12, 2008 10:51 AM |
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Posted on December 12, 2008 10:51
4. Posted by Matt | December 12, 2008 12:11 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Guess he should of incorporated himself as a bank or wall street investment company, then all would be forgiven, and he'd score more!
4. Posted by Matt | December 12, 2008 12:11 PM |
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Posted on December 12, 2008 12:11
5. Posted by Kozaburo | December 12, 2008 3:31 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The real question is "Is your Fort Lauderdale restaurant clean?"
5. Posted by Kozaburo | December 12, 2008 3:31 PM |
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Posted on December 12, 2008 15:31
6. Posted by Maggie Mama | December 12, 2008 9:41 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
If, by some really strange fluke, he had been sent refund checks, and since the government seems to be in a give-money-away mood, we'd be talking about how smart the guy was!
I've heard about incarcerated felons filing for tax refunds which are mailed to PO boxes, then someone on the outside picks up the checks and cashes them.
Who knows? The criminals get away with the strangest things.
6. Posted by Maggie Mama | December 12, 2008 9:41 PM |
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Posted on December 12, 2008 21:41