Two Sacramento residents sentenced to prison for false income tax return scheme

Date: July 28, 2025

Contact: newsroom@ci.irs.gov

Sacramento, CA — Dominic Davis and Sharitia Wright, both of Sacramento, were sentenced today to federal prison for conspiring to file false claims, Acting U.S. Attorney Kimberly A. Sanchez announced. Davis received a sentence of three years and four months in prison, and Wright received a sentence of one year and three months in prison.

According to court documents, between March 2019 and April 2022, Davis and Wright caused at least nine fraudulent income-tax returns to be filed with the IRS claiming more than $2 million of income tax refunds.

The returns were filed in the names of Davis, Wright, and family members and listed wages that the taxpayers had not received. They often listed the taxpayers’ employer as one of the various LLCs created by Davis, Wright, and their family members. Many of the returns also falsely claimed charitable contributions that were not actually made. Davis prepared and filed the false tax returns. Wright provided him information and contacted the IRS to check on the status of the refunds claimed in the false tax returns.

Davis and Wright were ordered to pay restitution for the fraudulent income tax refunds that they received.

This case was the product of an investigation by IRS Criminal Investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas M. Fogg prosecuted the case.

IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) is the law enforcement arm of the IRS, responsible for conducting financial crime investigations, including tax fraud, narcotics trafficking, money laundering, public corruption, healthcare fraud, identity theft and more. IRS-CI special agents are the only federal law enforcement agents with investigative jurisdiction over violations of the Internal Revenue Code, obtaining a 90% federal conviction rate. The agency has 19 field offices located across the U.S. and 14 attaché posts abroad.