Date: Feb. 26, 2025
Contact: newsroom@ci.irs.gov
Clarksburg, WV — David M. Anderson of Morgantown, West Virginia, was sentenced to six months in federal prison for filing false tax returns.
According to court documents and statements made in court, Anderson, a physician, filed false tax returns that understated his taxable income and made false claims to lessen his tax burden, causing a loss to the IRS of $143,599 over a four-year period.
Anderson will serve three years of supervised release following his prison sentence.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Eleanor Hurney prosecuted the case on behalf of the government.
The Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) investigated.
Chief U.S. District Judge Thomas S. Kleeh presided.
IRS-CI is the criminal investigative arm of the IRS, responsible for conducting financial crime investigations, including tax fraud, narcotics trafficking, money-laundering, public corruption, healthcare fraud, identity theft and more. IRS-CI special agents are the only federal law enforcement agents with investigative jurisdiction over violations of the Internal Revenue Code, obtaining a 90% federal conviction rate. The agency has 20 field offices located across the U.S. and 14 attaché posts abroad.