Three former employees at JPMorgan Chase & Co branches
in New York pleaded guilty on Monday to using the identities of Puerto Rican
customers to file fraudulent tax returns, U.S. authorities told Reuters.
The three were charged in January by Manhattan federal
prosecutors with orchestrating two separate tax fraud schemes between 2006 and
2007 that cheated the Internal Revenue Service and New York State out of $4.8
million.
Katherine Torres, 52, a former manager at a Chase branch in
the New York borough of the Bronx, and Rosalind Smith, 41, who also worked
there, were charged in the first scheme, along with another person against whom
charges are still pending. Judith
Fulgencio, 32, who worked at a Chase branch at Yankee Stadium, was charged in a
second scheme.
The three pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to steal
government funds, prosecutors said. They face a maximum of five years in prison
at sentencing….
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