GREENSBORO — The final defendant in a tax fraud, health care fraud and money laundering scheme that had two fingers in Alamance County was sentenced Friday, Ripley Rand, U.S. attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina, announced Monday.

Former tax preparer Keith Dillard is the last of 12 defendants in the scheme. Dillard was convicted of wire fraud, tax fraud and aggravated identity theft. He was sentenced to 25 months, ordered to pay $29,228 in restitution and a special assessment of $300, and given three years of supervised release.

THE TAX CASE involved Nothing But Taxes, which had 10 franchises throughout the state from 2005 to 2012. Employees frequently offered clients dramatically larger tax refunds for cash payments to preparers, the U.S. Attorney’s Office says. These payments were over and above the flat return preparation fee that NBT charged every client, whether their return was falsified or not.

Working at Nothing But Taxes’ Greensboro branch was Jennifer Diane Bullock, whose roommate, Rakecia Matrese Brame, was an Alamance County social worker. Brame pleaded guilty in federal court in January to providing the personal information of child abuse victims for NBT’s use in tax fraud. Bullock and other tax preparers paid Brame $200 to $300 for each false dependent’s information. Brame took Alamance County DSS laptops to the tax office to disseminate the information.

Bullock and Brame were convicted of the same charges as Dillard. Bullock was sentenced to 15 months, ordered to pay $38,100 in restitution and a special assessment of $300, and given three years of supervised release. Brame was sentenced to 39 months, ordered to pay $38,217 in restitution and a special assessment of $300, and given three years of supervised release.

Sentenced this past summer was Tasha Renee Smith, a return preparer with Nothing But Taxes who was also co-owner of the Burlington branch of Tax Solutions, another tax preparation company, from January to April 2012. Smith was convicted of the same charges as Dillard, Bullock and Brame, and was sentenced to 30 months, ordered to pay $375,758 in restitution and a special assessment of $300, and given three years of supervised release.

Claude Verbal, former owner of Nothing but Taxes, was convicted of tax fraud, conspiracy to defraud the government and money laundering. He was sentenced to 135 months (11¼ years), ordered to pay $6,460,962.46 in restitution and a special assessment of $400, and given three years of supervised release.

Others guilty in the case were convicted of wire fraud, tax fraud and aggravated identity theft:

■ Thomas Branch, branch manager, sentenced to 48 months, ordered to pay $123,313 in restitution and a special assessment of $300, and given three years of supervised release.

■ Ronald Hairston, client recruiter, sentenced to 24 months, ordered to pay $31,054 in restitution and a special assessment of $300, and given three years of supervised release.

■ Saichelle McNeil, return preparer, sentenced to 27 months, ordered to pay $56,998 in restitution and a special assessment of $300, and given two years of supervised release.

■ Nneka Davis, return preparer, sentenced to 36 months, ordered to pay $123,313 in restitution and a special assessment of $300, and given three years of supervised release.

■ Nikki Brewster, branch manager, sentenced to 61 months, ordered to pay $79,519.31 in restitution and a special assessment of $300, and given three years of supervised release.

■ Dawn Williams, return preparer, sentenced to 36 months, ordered to pay $110,914 in restitution and a special assessment of $300, and given three years of supervised release.

■ Leslie Brewster, branch manager, sentenced to 70 months, ordered to pay $92,910 in restitution and a special assessment of $300, and given three years of supervised release.

■ Tiffany Rogers, return preparer, sentenced to 48 months, ordered to pay $107,299.78 in restitution and a special assessment of $300, and given three years of supervised release.

VERBAL REACHED into Alamance County also with Infinite Wellness Concepts, a health provider with locations in Burlington, Durham, and Greensboro. It contracted to provide group therapy, intensive in-home services, and enhanced mental health and substance abuse services. Verbal acquired at least $1 million fraudulently from Medicaid, the government says. The fraudulent activities were:

■ Changing diagnosis codes so higher reimbursement rates could be billed;

■ Inflating the number of clients treated during group therapy;

■ Billing for services not rendered and submitting false treatment notes to support them, using forged signatures from counselors and therapists;

■ Unqualified personnel conducting therapy; and

■ Creating fraudulent clinical assessments and creating clinical assessments prepared and signed by unqualified preparers.

The most common falsifications at Nothing But Taxes were dependents, Schedule C businesses, tip income, Earned Income Tax Credits and education credits. Employees facilitated the purchases and sales of false dependents at NBT by purchasing names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of individuals from the community for use as false dependents on other NBT clients’ tax returns.

The IRS shut down electronic filing privileges at all 10 NBT branches in 2012 because of persistent fraud. Verbal re-applied for electronic filing privileges twice for all NBT locations, first in the name of a relative and, when that attempt failed, in the name of another relative who had no knowledge of NBT’s business.

Proceeds from the tax and health care fraud schemes went to make extensive purchases of luxury cars, homes and jewelry.

In the course of the health care fraud investigation, law enforcement authorities seized $765,917 from bank accounts, a 2011 Toyota Camry, and four pieces of diamond jewelry, including a 7-carat diamond ring.