A Campbellsport man is charged in federal court with tax fraud. Sixty nine year old Robert Spoerl is charged with 10 counts of assisting in the filing of false federal income tax returns, 16 counts of theft and two counts of identity theft. The 28-count indictment accuses Spoerl of committing $150,000 worth of tax fraud while he ran a tax preparation service. Spoerl is alleged to have used clients’ personal information without their knowledge to file false tax returns with the IRS while he operated under the name J & R Tax Service in Kewaskum. Spoerl allegedly kept the fraudulent portion of the refund for himself and paid the legitimate portion to his clients. Spoerl will be arraigned in federal court in Milwaukee on March 15th.
