Tax Preparers Plead Guilty to Filing Fraudulent Tax Returns

Michegel Butler and Brittany Patterson, residents of St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to defraud the United States, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Patterson also pleaded guilty to aiding and assisting in the filing of false tax returns.