Entries from DCist tagged with 'guilty'
November 4, 2008
From the Post, we learn that Richard Walters, younger brother of Office of Tax and Revenue embezzlement mastermind Harriette Walters, has been sentenced to four years and three months in prison for his role in the scheme. Richard Walters pleaded guilty in May to personally helping his sister steal $4.9 million of the over $50 million she stole altogether.......
Continue Reading "Another Sentence in the Tax Office Case"September 16, 2008
As expected, Harriette Walters entered a plea of guilty today, admitting to her role as the head of an elaborate scheme that pilfered almost $50 million from District of Columbia taxpayers. The former mid-level manager at the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue is expected to serve up to 18 years in prison, pending approval by Judge Emmet Sullivan. In a lengthy report to the court based on extensive interviews with Walters, prosecutors finally confirmed......
Continue Reading "Harriette Walters Enters Guilty Plea"September 15, 2008
Big scoop for the Examiner: Harriette Walters, the alleged mastermind behind the enormous Office of Tax and Revenue embezzlement scandal, will plead guilty. Walters is charged with heading up an elaborate scheme that resulted in $48 million worth of phony property-tax refunds. Nearly all of the eleven other people charged for their involvement in the scam have already pleaded guilty and presumably agreed to testify against Walters, had she gone forward with a trial.......
Continue Reading "Harriette Walters to Plead Guilty"
