Miami, Florida – Fifty-one-year-old Kevin Dewayne Kirby was sentenced yesterday in federal district court in Ft. Lauderdale to 57 months in federal prison for laundering over $500,000 connected to two wire fraud scams.

The first was an IRS tax scam, which generally worked the following way: A fraudster, pretending to be from the IRS, called victims and convinced them that they owed back taxes to the IRS.  The fraudster would threaten arrest and other legal action if the tax obligations were not immediately paid.  Fearing the threats, victims wired their money to bank accounts that Kirby or his co-conspirators controlled.

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