A federal grand jury in Boston has indicted a longtime agent for the Internal Revenue Service for allegedly filing false tax returns for three years, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
Ndeye Amy Thioub, of Swampscott, Mass., was arrested late last month and charged by criminal complaint with lying on her tax returns for 2017, 2018 and 2019.
On Tuesday, she was indicted on three counts of filing false tax returns and three counts of filing false tax returns as an employee of the United States.
Thioub, who has served as a Boston-based IRS agent since 2006, was currently tasked with investigating “complex income tax returns filed by large businesses, corporations and organizations,” the U.S. attorney’s office in Massachusetts said in a news release.
The 67-year-old, who is “highly knowledgeable about tax law,” also taught college-level classes at Salem State University, where she instructed students on topics including professional standards and “ethics, professional responsibilities and legal liabilities issues facing auditors,” officials said.
According to the charging documents, Thioub claimed a loss from a supposed “import and export” business she claimed to have when filing her tax returns for tax years 2017 to 2019.
She’s accused of underreporting her total income by approximately $43,000 in 2017, $20,00 in 2018, and $27,000 in 2019.
That claimed net loss was carried over to her personal IRS Form 1040s and then used “to reduce Thioub’s adjusted gross income and ultimate tax liability,” prosecutors said.
Each charge of filing a false tax return provides for a sentence of up to three years in prison, followed by one year of supervised release, and a fine of up to $100,000
The charge of filing a false tax return by a federal employee provides for a sentence of up to five years in prison, followed by one year of supervised release, and a fine of up to $10,000.
