JEFFERSON CITY – A former IRS employee in St. Louis pleaded guilty to charges in connection to a $326,000 tax fraud scheme.
Demetria Brown, 38, pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. She admitted to filing more than 350 false tax returns and using stolen identities while working for the IRS from 2008 to 2011. Brown filed more than 120 fraudulent federal tax returns, totaling about $211,000, and at least 236 fraudulent state tax returns, totaling about $115,000.