FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TAX

MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2005 (202) 514-2007

WWW.USDOJ.GOV TDD (202) 514-1888

Justice Department Sues Utah Family

To Halt Alleged Tax-Fraud Scheme
Federal Injunction Suit Also Seeks to Bar Family
Members
From Preparing Tax Returns for Others
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Justice Department announced today that it has asked
a Utah federal court to stop several members of a Clawson, Utah family from
preparing federal tax returns for others and from selling alleged tax-fraud schemes.
The civil injunction suit, filed last week in Salt Lake City, alleges that John Justice,
his wife Sandra Justice, his daughters Barbara Justice and Judith Shakespeare, and
his son-in-law Byron Shakespeare have prepared or helped to prepare and file
fraudulent income tax returns for customers since 2001. The complaint also seeks an
order directing the defendants to provide the government a list of their customers'
names, mailing and e-mail addresses, and telephone and Social Security numbers.

According to the complaint, the defendants, acting through John Justice's

businesses, Accounting Technologies and Dynamic Business Solutions, prepare and
file fraudulent income tax returns that claim improper deductions for personal
expenses or claim an improper filing status. The complaint alleges that the
defendants prepared and filed over 1,100 tax returns for the tax years 2001 through
2003 alone, costing the federal treasury more than $12 million for those years. The
complaint also alleges that John Justice organizes and promotes a tax-fraud scheme
that uses fraudulent personal businesses, partnerships, and subchapter S corporations
in an attempt to evade customers' income and employment taxes.

"People who prepare false or fraudulent tax returns cheat their customers as well as
the federal treasury in order to enrich themselves," said Eileen J. O'Connor,
Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's Tax Division. "The
Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service are working vigorously to
stop the promotion of tax fraud."

According to the lawsuit, John Justice pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for
the District of Wyoming to one count of preparing false federal tax returns. He was
sentenced to 21 months in prison, 12 months of supervised release, and required to
pay $107,653 in restitution.

More information about the Justice Department's efforts against tax-scam promoters
and preparers of false or fraudulent tax returns can be found at
http://www.usdoj.gov/tax/taxpress2005.htm. Information about the Justice
Department's Tax Division can be found at http://www.usdoj.gov/tax.

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