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ARLINGTON MAN SENTENCED TO 20 MONTHS IMPRISONMENT
FOR PREPARING FALSE TAX RETURNS

United States Attorney Richard B. Roper announced that Arlington, Texas, resident, Ademola Ogunbanwo, age 42, was sentenced yesterday in Fort Worth, Texas, by the Honorable Terry R. Means, to serve 20 months imprisonment. He was ordered to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on November 15, 2004.

A federal grand jury returned an indictment in April charging Ogunbanwo with 17 counts of preparing false tax returns, in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 7206(2) and in June, Ogunbanwo pled guilty to one of those counts. He admitted that in April 2002, he aided and assisted in the preparation and presentation to the Internal Revenue Service, of a U.S. Individual Income Tax Return, Form 1040, when he well knew that it represented charitable contribution deductions and employee business expense deductions to which the taxpayers were not entitled.

The Court found that Ogunbanwo, whom Court records show is a naturalized citizen from Nigeria, was responsible for $272,368 in revenue lost to the Internal Revenue Service.

U.S. Attorney Roper praised the investigative efforts of the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Douglas A. Allen.

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