Monica Nunes
Salt Lake City, UTAH — A Samoan man who resides in Utah, along with two people from California, are facing a 12-count indictment, accusing the trio of conspiring to defraud financial institutions using a scheme called “refund fraud” or “force post refund fraud” that resulted in the loss of more...

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