Crime & Safety
Hingham Insurance Broker Found Guilty Of Filing Fraudulent Tax Returns
Anthony May faces up to three years in prison, a year of supervised release and a $250,000 fine.

An insurance broker from Dover was convicted Tuesday by a federal jury in Boston in connection with filing fraudulent personal tax returns.
Anthony J. May, 62, was found guilty of two counts of filing false tax returns for 2008 and 2009. U.S. District Court Judge William G. Young scheduled sentencing for Oct. 2, 2017, according the U.S. Attorney's office.
May owned and operated Clients First Financial Insurance Agency, LLC, through which he sold life insurance products as a broker, and Advantage Life Settlements, LLC, through which he which served as a broker for insured individuals looking to sell their personal life insurance policies to third party investors. May operated his businesses out of an office suite in Hingham where he also leased space to other independent insurance agents. May filed false 2008 and 2009 individual income tax returns that did not report $396,554 in income that he received from insurance commissions, broker fees and lease rental payments, the U.S. Attorney's office said.
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May faces up to three years in prison, a year of supervised release and a $250,000 fine.
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