International Automated Systems (fka IAUS)

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96. On information and belief, Shepard, Johnson, and Freeborn have “bought,” and continue to “buy,” lenses each year themselves, and claim the same false tax benefits on their own tax returns that their customers claim.

97. To date, at least 90 people, from Florida, California, Texas, Michigan, and elsewhere across the United States, have claimed bogus tax benefits based on Defendants’ abusive solar energy scheme.

98. Many of Defendants’ customers are teachers and/or coaches in secondary schools. Defendants were able to reach at least some of their customers through the customer list for Bigger, Faster, Stronger (“BFS”), Shepard’s athletic strength and conditioning programing and
equipment company.

99. Freeborn was a “National Director” of BFS.

100. Shepard and Freeborn used their positions at BFS to promote their abusive solar energy scheme.

101. Freeborn promoted the solar energy scheme as a way for coaches to “replace any income [the coach] lost to budget cuts” at their schools and to “fund [the coach’s] athletic department.”


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Doc 2 PDF file
https://www.scribd.com/doc/291081416/USA-v-RaPower-3-Et-Al-Doc-2-Filed-23-Nov-15