WASHINGTON – Walter Allen Johnson, aka Beau Johnson, a former Tennessee Department of Correction inmate, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Todd J. Campbell of the Middle District of Tennessee to 92 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to submit false tax returns on behalf of prison inmates, the Department of Justice announced. Johnson was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $57,880.80.
During a plea hearing on Feb. 28, 2011, Johnson admitted that, from February 2006 through January 2007, while incarcerated by the Tennessee Department of Correction, he conspired with others to defraud the United States by submitting false tax returns that claimed refunds on behalf of other inmates. To execute the scheme, Johnson collected Social Security numbers from other inmates and recruited other inmates to collect Social Security numbers for him. Johnson and his co-conspirators then used those Social Security numbers to file false income tax forms with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in the names of inmates, claiming refunds to which the inmates were not entitled.
The government presented evidence at sentencing that, as a result of the scheme, Johnson and his co-conspirators collected approximately 87 U.S. Treasury checks totaling approximately $57,880.
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