West Virginia Tax Preparer Sentenced to 18 Months for Wire Fraud
Amanda Gorham, 34, of Harpers Ferry was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for wire fraud committed in her roles as a tax preparer and insurance agent in Berkeley County. The sentence activates immediate custody by the Bureau of Prisons and a subsequent term of supervised release under the Northern District of West Virginia.
winnipegfreepress.comAmanda Gorham, 34, of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for wire fraud. U.S. Attorney Matthew L. Harvey announced the sentence on May 6, 2026, in the Northern District of West Virginia.
Gorham worked as a tax preparer and insurance agent serving clients in Berkeley County. The conviction rests on her use of wire communications to carry out the fraud scheme. The announcement contains no figures for total losses or the number of individuals affected.
The sentence places Gorham in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons for 18 months. She moves from pretrial status in the community to designation at a federal correctional facility. A term of supervised release follows the prison portion of the sentence.
The Bureau of Prisons will now assign Gorham to an institution and calculate her projected release date. The U.S. Probation Office for the Northern District of West Virginia will prepare supervision conditions that typically require employment reporting, financial disclosures, and restrictions on work in tax or insurance fields.
If the court entered a restitution order, the U.S. Attorney’s financial litigation unit begins collection through available legal mechanisms.
The sentencing adds to the Northern District of West Virginia’s docket of financial fraud prosecutions involving licensed professionals. The district covers 32 counties and processes cases that include both violent crime and white-collar offenses. Similar sentencings in the district have applied federal wire fraud statutes to conduct by individuals in financial services roles.
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