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IRS Special Agent Mike Lemoine said Friday that the case is a cooperative effort between the IRS and the FBI. The case was filed in Austin, Lemoine said, because many of the crimes allegedly took place while she lived there.
“This is the type of crime typically committed by street-level criminals rather than white-collar criminals,” Lemoine said in a telephone interview. “It is rampant in society.”
Lemoine said he was limited in releasing indictment information because a trial is pending. Federal privacy laws prohibit releasing Washington’s date of birth or photograph, he said.
She is known to federal agents by other names including Lynetta Washington-Hill, M. Lynette Washington-Hill, Lynetta Luciano, Lynetta Jackson and Lynetta Spruiell, the agent said.
There are nine counts in the indictment, all concerning documents filed using false names and Social Security numbers to obtain tax refunds and money from falsifying loan applications.
The Texas Department of Savings and Mortgage Lending also allege Washington to have used her deceased mother’s identity to obtain a license as a loan officer. She allegedly used this false identity to obtain loans on behalf of at least one mortgage company, according to the indictment.
From 2006 to 2009, she allegedly used this identity in a scheme to obtain mortgage loans for clients by inflating and falsifying borrowers’ qualification information to be considered by lenders in the application process.
Washington allegedly falsified loan applications with untrue and inflated numbers without the knowledge or consent of the actual borrowers. She then allegedly benefited by receiving commissions as a loan officer, according to the indictment.
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