Location: Alexandria, VA
Time: November 17, 2025
A federal jury in Alexandria convicted 60-year-old Omini Tete Riman of Woodbridge on charges of corruptly endeavoring to obstruct the administration of internal revenue laws and failing to file income tax returns.
According to court records and evidence presented during trial, Riman worked as an information technology specialist and landlord. He fraudulently filed IRS Forms 1040 for the tax years 2013 and 2014, receiving tax refunds totaling nearly $400,000—funds he was not entitled to.
When the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) began efforts in 2016 to recover those funds, Riman took deliberate and deceptive actions to block their collection. Among the steps he took were transferring his property into a trust to conceal assets, funneling his income into a bank account opened under that trust, and instructing his tenant to ignore IRS notices—claiming they were a scam.
Riman also submitted false paperwork to the IRS, alleging that the collections officer handling his case had personally received more than $600,000 from him. That claim, if accepted, could have endangered the agent’s job and tax situation.
While these obstruction efforts were ongoing, Riman also failed to file federal tax returns for six consecutive years—from 2018 to 2023—despite earning more than $854,000 in wages and rental income during that period.
Riman now faces up to nine years in federal prison. Sentencing is scheduled for February 10, 2026. The actual sentence will be determined by a federal district court judge, who will weigh the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory considerations.