Man pleads guilty to cashing fraudulently obtained tax refund checks
Montgomery, AL – Rodriguez Thomas, of Montgomery, pleaded guilty today in federal court to conspiring to cash fraudulently obtained federal tax refund checks, announced George L. Beck, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.
According to court documents, Thomas, along with his co-conspirators, Jesse Johnson and Quanesha Johnson, obtained U.S. Treasury tax refund checks that were issued as a result of the filing of fraudulent tax returns. Thomas and the Johnsons and others cashed approximately seventy-seven fraudulently obtained U.S. Treasury tax refund checks that totaled approximately $137,016 by bringing them to a bank teller, Debora Gray, who worked for a bank in Wetumpka, Alabama, and who was in on the scheme.


























