Jesse Cota was a District Director for the IRS. After he left the IRS he went to work for Renaissance, the Tax People. That wasn’t a good choice of employer. It may have been lucrative financially for Mr. Cota for a while (he did earn $300,000) but the methods that he espoused weren’t the best.
Renaissance was a multi-level marketing firm. There’s nothing wrong with that. Renaissance sold a product called “The Tax Advantage System.” Well, if they were teaching Americans how to better prepare returns, that would be a good thing. However, as Cota admitted when he pleaded guilty to defrauding the government out of $1.3 Million, the program was, “…designed to sell illegal tax deductions through false and misleading representations.” Oops.