TFP File Photo TAMPA, Fla. - Kenneth Fowler of Tampa has been charged with three counts of making and filing false federal income tax returns whil
TAMPA, Fla. – Kenneth Fowler of Tampa has been charged with three counts of making and filing false federal income tax returns while he was employed at Salvation Army Suncoast Adult Rehabilitation Center in St. Petersburg.
If convicted, Fowler faces a maximum penalty of three years imprisonment for each count.
According to the indictment, between the end of December 2013 and August 2018, Fowler, who was then working as a payroll coordinator at the Salvation Army Suncoast Adult Rehabilitation Center in St. Petersburg, engaged in a scheme to embezzle funds from the Salvation Army.
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Fowler falsely altered records to reflect that employees who had left the employment of the Salvation Army were still on its payroll so that Fowler could collect their paychecks and ultimately forge their signatures and deposit those checks into his own personal bank accounts.
Fowler also misdirected direct deposit checks from the former employees’ bank accounts into his own personal bank account. In this manner, Fowler obtained more than $239,000 in Salvation Army funds to which he was not entitled.
He then failed to include those stolen funds as income on his 2016, 2017, and 2018 Individual Income Tax Returns. By doing so, he avoided the payment of substantial taxes due and owing to the United States.
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This case was investigated by the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation, with assistance from the Pinellas Park Police Department. Assistant United States Attorney Jay L. Hoffer is prosecuting this case.
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