Dead kids don't sue

After only 30 minutes of deliberation, a federal jury yesterday (June 30) convicted Lloyd Irving Taylor, tax attorney and accountant, of 19 felony counts, including aggravated identity theft and tax evasion.

Evidence at trial reportedly showed that he stole identities of dead children and used them as aliases to get fraudulent passports and create phony accounts to hide his income from the Internal Revenue Service.

Taylor created non-existent churches, for which he opened bank accounts, so his income could grow tax-free. Over 42 years, Taylor had filed tax returns only seven times, according to court records.