Former IRS employee indicted for filing false tax returns for drug dealers

Date: Sept. 22, 2026

Contact: newsroom@ci.irs.gov

Denver – The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that Clinton Roosevelt Dale of Denver, Colorado, has been charged by a federal grand jury with twelve counts of willfully preparing false tax returns for clients and money laundering.

According to the indictment, Dale owned and operated Blue Bear Tax Solutions, a Denver tax preparation business. The charges allege that Dale designed a scheme to conceal the true nature and source of income earned by certain clients of Blue Bear Tax Solutions who primarily made money by illegally selling drugs, including cocaine. To carry out this scheme, Dale allegedly created fictitious businesses and prepared false individual tax returns for the drug dealer clients, which fraudulently reported that the clients earned income from lawful business activity rather than from illegally selling drugs and claimed improper business expense deductions to reduce the clients’ taxes.

Dale previously worked for the IRS as a contact representative and revenue agent for over ten years before resigning in lieu of termination in 2014.

This operation is part of the Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) initiative established by Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion. The HSTF is a whole-of-government partnership dedicated to eliminating criminal cartels, foreign gangs, transnational criminal organizations, and human smuggling and trafficking rings operating in the United States and abroad. Through historic interagency collaboration, the HSTF directs the full might of United States law enforcement towards identifying, investigating, and prosecuting the full spectrum of crimes committed by these organizations, which have long fueled violence and instability within our borders. In performing this work, the HSTF places special emphasis on investigating and prosecuting those engaged in child trafficking or other crimes involving children. The HSTF further utilizes all available tools to prosecute and remove the most violent criminal aliens from the United States. The Rocky Mountain HSTF comprises agents and officers from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Internal Revenue Service, Office of Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), United States Marshals Service (USMS), Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement / Enforcement and Removal Operations (ICE/ERO) with the prosecution being led by the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado.

The charges contained in the indictment are allegations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

IRS Criminal Investigation is investigating the case. 

Assistant United States Attorney Amanda R. Scott is handling the prosecution.

IRS-CI is the law enforcement arm of the IRS, responsible for conducting financial crime investigations, including tax fraud, narcotics trafficking, money laundering, public corruption, healthcare fraud, identity theft and more. It is the only federal law enforcement agency with investigative jurisdiction over violations of the Internal Revenue Code. IRS-CI has 16 field offices located across the U.S. and maintains an international presence through attaché posts abroad.