Florida woman sentenced in Connecticut for defrauding $473K from IRS with false tax returns

Diana Miller-Lloyd, 45, of Port Orange, Fla., was sentenced in Hartford to 18 months in prison on Tuesday for preparing false tax returns, costing the IRS $472,913.

HARTFORD, Conn. — A former Connecticut tax preparer, who now lives in Florida, was sentenced in Hartford federal court on Tuesday to 18 months behind bars for preparing numerous false tax returns.

Diana Miller, 45, of Port Orange, Fla., will have her sentence followed by one year of supervised release, according to a report from the interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut.

Miller-Lloyd, who also goes by “Diana Rabin” and “Diana Lloyd,” used to live in Middlefield and ran a tax return preparation business in the state called Lloyd Forenzique & Accounting Services Corp.

She launched the business in Windsor in 2017 before moving it to Branford in 2019 and to Guilford in 2021.

Before 2017, prosecutors say Miller-Lloyd provided tax preparation services under the business name Lloyd Forensic & Accounting Services.

She regularly acquired significant federal tax refunds for her clients, many of whom had incomes of over $500,000.

Court documents and statements show that Miller-Lloyd accomplished this by disregarding information provided by her clients and their employers and by falsifying and incorrectly deducting charitable contributions and business expenses such as advertising, repairs and maintenance, travel, meals, utilities, insurance and legal services.

From the 2016 through 2021 tax years, Miller-Lloyd used these fraudulent deductions to get at least $1,062,293 for her clients in either fraudulent refunds or fraudulent reductions on owed tax payments.

The Internal Revenue Service reported fraudulent activity on several of the filed returns before money was paid back, resulting in an actual loss to the government of $472,913.

On Tuesday, a judge ordered Miller-Lloyd to pay back restitution of $467,718 to the IRS.

Miller-Lloyd pleaded guilty on Oct. 1, 2025, to two counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false and fraudulent income tax returns.

Prosecutors add in the report that in 2010, Miller-Lloyd was convicted in New York for grand larceny in connection with the preparation of false tax returns.

Regarding her most recent run-in with the law, Miller-Lloyd was released on a $25,000 bond and must report to federal prison on July 13.

The case was investigated by the IRS’ Criminal Investigation Division.

Dalton Zbierski is a story desk editor and writer at FOX61 News. He can be reached at dzbierski@FOX61.com.

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