Who is the other person?
A former Pacific Grove man who purchased more than $360,000 in new vehicles and gold bars after filing bogus tax returns and receiving nearly $900,000 in tax “refunds” admitted to the crimes in federal court last week and faces up to a decade in prison when he’s sentenced in April, according to prosecutors. On Jan. 4, Richard Jason Mountford, 44, pleaded guilty to conspiring to file false claims against the United States, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of California.
From 2016 to 2020, Mountford conspired with another person — who prosecutors do not identify — to submit false income tax returns claiming refunds to which they were not entitled, according to prosecutors.