Date: Oct. 2, 2024 Contact: newsroom@ci.irs.gov New Orleans, LA — United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that on Sept. 26, 2024, Angela Shelton, of New Orleans, was sentenced for making false statements on an individual tax return, in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7206(1). According to court documents, Shelton owned and operated “Big Easy Accommodations, LLC,” a vacation rental and property management company in New Orleans. Between 2017 and 2019, Shelton under-reported her income on her individual tax returns from Big Easy Accommodations, by approximately $879,020. This underreporting caused a loss of approximately $294,690.00 to the Internal Revenue Service. Chief United States District Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown sentenced Shelton to serve 4 months probation. Shelton was ordered to pay restitution to the Internal Revenue Service in the amount of $294,690.00. Judge Brown also imposed a mandatory special assessment fee of $100. The U.S. Attorney’s Office would like to acknowledge the work of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) on this matter. The prosecution of this case is being handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney Maria Carboni of the Financial Crimes Unit. 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 more than a 90 percent federal conviction rate. The agency has 20 field offices located across the U.S. and 12 attaché posts abroad.
