Buchs Receives Sentencing

A Bryan woman is sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay a $10,750 fine for a phone scam. Tammi Buchs was indicted in October 2016 on 25 felony counts related to facilitating scams. Buchs participated in three, all in 2015. In the first, she received thousands of dollars in stolen tax refunds, the result of fraudulent tax returns filed with the Internal Revenue Service. In the second, she created fraudulent checks, designed to look like payroll checks from businesses. In the third, she laundered money by receiving deposits in bank accounts, then transferring money overseas.