Three Residents Sentenced for Tax Fraud and Obstruction of Justice

Gloria Reeder was sentenced to 15 months in prison, three years of supervised release and ordered to pay a $100 special assessment and $310,428 in restitution for unpaid taxes. On Aug. 18, 2015, Joe Ruben Hill, aka Joe Hill, of Cheyenne, was sentenced to 41 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Lucille Kathleen Hill, aka Kathy Hill, of Cheyenne, was sentenced to three years of probation with special conditions, including six months of home confinement. The Hills were each ordered to pay a $100 special assessment and restitution for unpaid taxes. Joe and Kathy Hill last filed federal individual income tax returns in 1994. Reeder had not filed a return since 1985, and none of the defendants had paid any income taxes from those years to the present. Joe and Kathy Hill operated the business Creative Consulting Group (CCG), which sold sham trusts that they falsely claimed would reduce or eliminate an individual’s federal income tax liability. Essentially, the scheme involved fraudulently assigning income to the trust by using a bank account in the trust’s name that was opened with a false federal tax identification number. From 2007 through 2012, Joe and Kathy Hill earned almost $500,000 in income through selling the CCG trusts, while Reeder earned more than $400,000 in income from insurance commissions and a travel business. The unreported income related to the scheme exceeded $2.7 million.

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