BOSTON — A Somerville man was sentenced in federal court in Boston today for preparing false tax returns in clients’ names.
According to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, U.S. Senior District Judge William Young sentenced Yves Isidor, 68, to 18 months in prison, followed by one year of supervised release, and barred him from preparing tax returns for others. After a six-day jury trial in November 2024, Isidor was found guilty on five counts of filing false tax returns.
“The evidence at trial established that from at least 2012 through 2020, Isidor operated a tax preparation business under the name Tax and Realty Pro to file more than 1,500 tax returns in the names of clients, charging between $100 to $500 per return,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts said in its statement. “Isidor added false information to tax returns to claim deductions for fictitious medical and dental expenses, gifts to charities and unreimbursed employee business expenses. The false returns resulted in taxpayers receiving tax refunds to which they were not entitled or paying lower taxes than they owed.”
At trial, taxpayers testified that Isidor never discussed the fabricated deductions with them and that they were unaware he had added them to their returns. An undercover agent also testified that, in a recorded meeting, after providing information that should have produced taxes owed, Isidor prepared a return claiming a substantial refund instead. Prosecutors said the scheme caused between $250,000 and $500,000 in lost income tax to the IRS.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Victor A. Wild of the U.S. Attorney’s Securities, Financial & Cyber Fraud Unit and Christina M. Grimes, a trial attorney in the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
