Sandra Mondaine is a retired employee of the Internal Revenue Service. A career working with the best of its kind collecting federal taxes and enforcing the tax law. Ironically, for Mondaine, her career was just a means to her life as a fraud. On June 13, 2024, Sandra Mondaine was indicted in federal court Tuesday for filing fraudulent tax returns on behalf of herself and others. Just ten months after pleading guilty to disability fraud. All while working for the Internal Revenue Service.
Court documents show that from 2018 to 2021, Mondaine generated large tax returns for her clients that would not have been given out by the IRS if she had filed their taxes truthfully. She falsified documents including residential energy credits and capital gains, a tax on the profit one makes from selling stock shares or similar investments. And Mondaine didn’t forget herself in these tax return schemes, claiming to earn extra income with a babysitting business. Mondaine said she had hired her two sons as paid employees. Which was impossible it turns out, as both were incarcerated for most of the period from 2007 to 2016. For an IRS employee, one would think a fraudster would be better with details.
Mondaine also failed to mention that one of her sons — Clayton Lewis Jr., 46 — is disabled and under her conservatorship. Which she too was also collecting while working for the Internal Revenue Service. Mondaine pleaded guilty to felony theft in September 2023. She was sentenced to five years’ probation and ordered to pay just over $209,000 to the Social Security Administration.
Her next trial has yet to be scheduled.
Kudos to the Social Security Administration with this case.
Today’s Fraud of The Day is based on article “Grandview woman indicted on 39 counts of tax fraud. It’s not her first time, feds say” published by The Kansas City Star on June 13, 2024.
Sandra Mondaine, a former IRS employee, was charged Tuesday with stealing more than $200,000 from the IRS. After pleading guilty to disability benefit fraud last year, a Grandview woman and former IRS employee was indicted again in federal court Tuesday — this time for filing fraudulent tax returns on behalf of others.
Sandra D. Mondaine, 64, is accused of illegally claiming more than $200,000 in fraudulent tax returns for at least 11 clients, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri. Country Club Plaza began with a handful of shops at the corner of 47thStreet and Mill Creek Road The fraud took place between tax years 2018 and 2021 and included 39 false or fraudulent reports, according to court records.
