United States v. Powell

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, Case No. 21-cv-10622 v. HON. MARK A. GOLDSMITH ANNETTA POWELL et al., Defendants. ____________________________/ OPINION & ORDER CONTAINING FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW FOLLOWING BENCH TRIAL I. INTRODUCTION This is a tax fraud case in which the Government contends that Defendant Annetta Powell—who owned and operated as many as five tax preparation stores in the Detroit area from 2009–2021—ran a tax fraud enterprise, training her preparers to file fraudulent tax returns on…