tax fraud

DeSoto Parish's former District Attorney has been sentenced for filing a false tax return.

40-year-old Leo Cortez Vinson will be spending the next five years in federal prison plus a year of supervised release because he failed to appear for sentencing on a tax fraud charge back in 2011.

39-year-old Latrisha Beaudoin turned herself in at Caddo Correctional Center on a Caddo Parish warrant.

A Natchitoches woman has pled guilty to aiding and assisting in making and subscribing a false tax return.

A local tax preparer is in some hot water. Caddo sheriff's investigators say 27-year-old Jamekia Green electronically filed the victim's 2011 tax return, then had the more than $4,700 refund deposited onto a pre-paid card in another name. Green never gave the money to the victim, keeping it instead for her own personal use ...