OAKLAND — A Brentwood girl who fired her attorneys and continued to adamantly keep her innocence after being convicted of fraud was sentenced Thursday to 81 months in federal jail, prosecutors introduced.
Jehoaddan Wilson, 42, of Brentwood, wrote in court docket data that “I've by no means dedicated any crime no matter what the report experiences,” and that going via the court docket course of uncovered her to the “hypocrisy” of “faux trials” and “faux juries.” Wilson was convicted of involvement in a number of tax fraud schemes that prompted roughly $902,000 in losses to victims, prosecutors mentioned.
In a single occasion, a lady who lived at a retirement group agreed to provide Wilson her private data to obtain cash via an alleged “Obama Stimulus plan.”
“Wilson used the private data to file a tax return on the aged girl’s behalf and with out her data. The tax return, replete with false data, generated a fraudulent tax refund, and Wilson directed roughly half of the refund into her personal checking account,” prosecutors mentioned in a information launch.
The investigation goes again 10 years, to 2012, when federal authorities served a search warrant at Wilson’s tax enterprise, Enterprise Monetary. In 2017, prosecutors secured a 34-count indictment towards Wilson and her brother, who has already served a jail time period.
Wilson was convicted of a number of fraud counts after a jury trial final September. She then fired her attorneys, filed a number of motions herself, asking to dismiss the case, and wrote her personal sentencing memo the place he mainly lambasted the court docket course of earlier than concluding she deserved “no sentence and no probation.” She mentioned the entire course of “ruined” her life and “destroyed” her love life, and that she now suffers from a severe medical illness.
“Jesus and I do know I'm harmless; the trial was faux and false. The conviction was made up and the court docket was stuffed with pretenders,” she wrote.
U.S. District Decide Jon Tigar handed down the 81-month jail time period. Prosecutors requested for 30 extra months than what Tigar handed down.
“Put merely, Jehoaddan Wilson used anybody and everybody she might, with out regard for his or her monetary nicely being or potential prison publicity, in order that she might line her pockets with taxpayer cash and stay the life she felt she deserved,” two U.S. Attorneys wrote in a sentencing temporary.
Wilson’s brother, Marcus Wilson, previously of San Pablo, was sentenced to 2 and a half years for his lesser position within the scheme, in 2019. He pleaded responsible reasonably than take his case to trial.