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Jun 12, 2009 
Cumming, Ga., resident Daniel Edward Turner was sentenced Friday to three years and 10 months in prison for obstruction and mailing fraudulent financial instruments to the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Treasury to purportedly pay his back taxes.
Turner also was fined $5,000 and ordered to pay back $114,053 to the IRS.
Beginning in 1998 and continuing to 2007, Turner obstructed tax laws through a number of acts, including not filing tax returns, not paying taxes, hiding income, sending false financial instruments to the IRS and the Treasury, and falsely claiming that IRS employees committed misconduct, including the IRS district director, the chief of the Automated Collection Service and the revenue agent who audited him.
Between April 1998 and February 2004, Turner paid fees to an organization called “American Rights Litigators” (ARL) in exchange for his use of ARL’s fraudulent tax schemes. Turner submitted more than $491,000 in bogus financial instruments — called “Bills of Exchange” — to the U.S. Department of Treasury and IRS in purported payment of the federal tax liabilities he owed. The bogus “Bills of Exchange” took various forms, some of which appeared similar to regular checks, but were fraudulent in that they attempted to draw funds from non-existent accounts with the Treasury Department.
The evidence at trial also showed that in 2004, Turner obstructed IRS collection activities by causing a contractor of his residential framing business to issue more than $92,500 in payments to another person for services rendered to Turner, in an effort to conceal Turner’s true income from the IRS.
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