Des Moines, IA- A 39-year-old Georgia woman has been sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for stealing the identities of dozens of University of Iowa employees to claim their tax refunds.
Radio Iowa reports that Florence Rosale Julio was able to illegally obtain more than 450-thousand dollars in tax refunds that were owed to University of Iowa staff in 2015.
The money was deposited in bank accounts in Georgia she had opened under a fake business name. A total of one point-four million dollars was laundered through those fake accounts.
According to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice, Julio used 44-thousand dollars worth of funds from one account to buy a Mercedes Benz from a dealership in Nashville.
