An Auburn resident has admitted to filing a false tax return and interfering with federal tax law administration in U.S. District Court in Portland. Rakiya Mohamed, 30, entered her guilty plea on Wednesday.
Court documents state that Mohamed owned Reliable Language Resources, a language interpretation business. She reported the company’s income and expenses on her individual tax returns for 2018 and 2019. Authorities said she claimed false expenses for contract labor and office costs on those returns. During an audit of her filings, Mohamed also gave IRS auditors falsified business records to support these expense claims.
If convicted, Mohamed could face up to three years in prison, a fine as high as $250,000, and one year of supervised release. Sentencing will occur after the U.S. Probation Office completes its presentence investigative report. The final sentence will be determined by a federal district court judge who will consider the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines along with other legal factors.
The investigation was conducted by IRS Criminal Investigation.
