WILTON MANORS, Fla. – A Wilton Manors accountant is accused of scamming greater than 20 of his consumers out of masses of hundreds of bucks.
He has been launched on bond as police proceed their investigation, believing there are lots of extra sufferers out there.
Jose Coss ran Coss Bookkeeping and Accounting sooner than he was once arrested for grand robbery, schemes to defraud, and cash laundering.
“They would come into his office to get their taxes done, he would say, ‘You don’t owe anything, you aren’t getting a refund but you don’t owe anything,’” Wilton Manors Police Department Detective Bonnie Owens mentioned. “He would change the tax documents to get a refund.”
Owens mentioned thus far, there are 22 sufferers and there may well be no less than ten extra.
Local 10 News’ Bridgette Matter sat down with one of them.
“I saw this post on Facebook that alerted me hey, there is this scam bookkeeper out there,” mentioned the sufferer, who requested to not be recognized.
According to the sufferer, Coss treated his tax returns for a number of years, and he relied on him.
“I was in disbelief, I couldn’t believe it,” mentioned the sufferer. “Something was off for a while there, but I trusted him, he was a friend.”
The guy says he knew one thing was once very incorrect when he was once denied get admission to to an American Express airport front room as a result of of an unpaid stability.
When he referred to as American Express, he found out a industry card with virtually $100,000 in unpaid fees, a card police say Coss opened.
“When was the moment when you realized you’ve been scammed?” requested Matter.
“When the Amex investigator called me up and said there was a $96,000 delinquency on the business card under my name, and I said was this Jose Coss.”
Later he got here throughout a Facebook post that learn:
“If anyone had their taxes done by Jose Coss then they may want to check their transcripts and reach out to Detective Owens at the Wilton Manors Police Department.”
Owens was once already at the case, including that unidentified sufferer to her rising checklist.
“He would cross out IRS, write Coss Bookkeeping and Accounting.” Said Owens.
It is precisely what courtroom paperwork say took place to any other sufferer, which mentioned the sufferer was once, “Owed $37,637 and there was a check in the file written to the IRS, however that was crossed out.”
Matter went to Coss’ indexed deal with, and somebody inside of informed her to depart.
“He does have a prior criminal history for embezzlement,” mentioned Owens.
Local 10 News checked into Coss’ background and located in 2010 he was once indicted for embezzlement, which he pleaded accountable to in 2012.
The sufferer Local 10 News spoke to and plenty of others mentioned they’re left with a large number.
The sufferer has employed any other accountant to study the returns that have been by no means filed and paintings with the IRS.
“When you include Amex and the IRS he’s been robbing, it’s way over the $100,000 mark,” mentioned the sufferer. “I want to see him go to jail for a very, very long time.”
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