Georgia woman faces 54 charges for tax scheme to defraud self-employed truck drivers

The owner of a Georgia accounting and bookkeeping company is facing dozens of federal charges for an alleged tax fraud scheme targeting truck drivers.

On August 13, 2026, federal authorities announced that a 54-count indictment had been returned by a federal grand jury against Diane Marie Poe, 62.

Charges include 32 counts of bank fraud, 14 counts of failure to account for and pay over withholding and FICA taxes, four counts of failure to file a corporate tax return, two counts of making and subscribing a false return, and two counts of federal program theft. 

Poe owns a Walton County, Georgia bookkeeping business called Genuine Financial Services, Inc. (GFS) that provided payroll, and payroll tax services, as well as business and personal tax preparation and filing services, mostly for trucking businesses.

Clients remitted estimated payroll taxes to GFS as part of the services.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Georgia, Poe defrauded at least 26 people, mostly self-employed truck drivers, by “accepting payments for tax and filing services she did not deliver, including collecting estimated payroll or trust fund taxes but failing to remit them to the IRS.”

Poe is further accused of failing file her personal and business taxes properly and of failing to pay payroll taxes for her own employees.

Most of the trucking companies found GFS through word of mouth, officials said. There could be additional victims beyond the 26 identified so far as part of the investigation.

Investigating agencies include the FBI, the IRS, the Loganville Police Department, the Walton County Sheriff’s Office and the Walton County District Attorney’s Office.

The FBI urges anyone who used GFS and thinks that they could have been victimized by this scheme to call FBI Atlanta at (770) 216-3000.