Lauren Ransom lost $1.4 million on the Seminole Casino at Coconut Creek slot machines, which isn’t illegal. That’s why the bookkeeper embezzled millions from one of the Margate-based companies for which she worked. That is illegal.
Neither is the reason Ransom’s about to lose an irreplaceable commodity, time outside prison, after pleading guilty in federal court Thursday to three counts of tax fraud.
She’s not being prosecuted in any court for what she stole from the owners of Rhino Inc., who also owned the other company for which Ransom was bookkeeper for 33 years. But, taking a tack taken recently with Pompano Beach embezzler Timothy Beverley, federal prosecutors and the Internal Revenue Service reasoned income is income. They went after Ransom, a 58-year-old Deerfield Beach resident, for not reporting the embezzled millions on her taxes for 2011, 2012 or 2013.
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