In total, the three family members received more than $1,200,000 in tax refunds by claiming other peoples\u2019 lottery tickets as their own and then offsetting those winnings with fake gambling losses on their tax returns,\u201d <\/strong>the Justice Department said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe MGC temporarily banned the Jaafars from playing the lottery in 2019. The family responded by suing the commission, unsuccessfully, for an injunction to let them continue cashing out their endless supply of winning tickets.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong>The Jaafars were indicted by a federal grand jury in August 2021<\/p>\nCheating the System<\/strong><\/h2>\nSentencing for Mohamed Jaafar is scheduled for next March, Ali and Yousef in April. The charge of conspiracy to defraud the IRS comes with a sentence of up to five years in prison, three years of supervised release, a fine of $250K or twice the gross gain or loss, whichever is greater, and restitution.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy defrauding the Massachusetts Lottery and the Internal Revenue Service, the Jaafars cheated the system and took millions of hard-earned taxpayers\u2019 dollars. This guilty verdict shows that elaborate money-laundering schemes and tax frauds will be rooted out and prosecuted,\u201d said US Attorney Rachael S. Rollins in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A father and son who \u201cwon\u201d the Massachusetts Lottery more than 14,000 times have been convicted of tax fraud and money laundering. Ali Jaafar, 63, and Yousef Jaafar, 29, both of Watertown, Mass., were among the most prolific lottery winners in the state\u2019s history. Winning 14,000 times is at least theoretically possible. But Massachusetts State […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":247661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,13699],"tags":[84091,13701,27],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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