Three Florida men sentenced in $15M tax fraud scheme
WASHINGTON (Aug. 28, 2025) – Three Florida men have been sentenced to federal prison for orchestrating a multi-year tax fraud scheme that caused up to $15 million in losses to the United States.
According to court documents and statements made in court, Jonathan Carillo was sentenced to 121 months in prison, Franklin Carter Jr. to 84 months, and Diandre T. Mentor to 36 months. From 2016 to 2020, Carter and Carillo owned and operated Neighborhood Advance Tax (NAT), a tax preparation business with a dozen offices across Florida, where fraudulent deductions were fabricated to inflate client refunds. Mentor, who managed NAT’s Orlando office from 2018 to 2019, also participated.
The defendants held training sessions to teach employees how to prepare false returns and later launched ad...