[Connecticut Tax Preparer Accused of Fabricating Cryptocurrency and Other Investment Losses for Clients, Involving at Least 4,335 Tax Returns] According to a report by Deep Tide TechFlow on October 26, citing Bitcoin.com, Yuridia Trujillo, a tax preparer in Meriden, Connecticut, is accused of fabricating stock and cryptocurrency trading losses for clients through her company, Yuri's LLC, for tax years from 2017 to 2024. The clients never held these assets. The IRS alleges she also used Form 8888 to transfer some clients' tax refunds to her own and a related party's bank accounts. A federal grand jury indicted her on October 7, and she was arrested on October 9. She is currently out on $50,000 bail and faces 19 counts of assisting in the preparation of false income tax returns, each carrying a maximum sentence of three years in prison. The case remains an indictment, and she is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Previously, Texas Bitcoin investor Frank Richard Ahlgren III was sentenced to two years in prison in December 2024 for exaggerating the cost of his Bitcoin purchases and was ordered to pay approximately $1.095 million in restitution.