A judge sentenced two Orlando women to multiple years in federal prison for filing fraudulent tax returns.

Erotida Natasha Harden Ortiz and Aida Cortes received their sentences on Wednesday, according to a press release from the Department of Justice.

Ortiz will serve eight years in federal prison, while Cortes will serve four years and six months. A jury convicted both women on conspiracy to defraud the United States and six counts of aiding false statements to the IRS tax returns in Oct. 2022.

Ortiz owned Certified Taxes, LLC, with Cortes as her office manager. From 2016 to 2018, they filled out fraudulent Schedule C forms, which showed a business loss for unsuspecting taxpayers. The company filed more than 3,600 tax returns and received more than $1.2 million in preparation fees, according to the DOJ.

“Knowingly submitting false documents to the IRS is a crime,” said Ronald A. Loecker, IRS-CI Acting Special Agent in Charge. “The defendants personally benefitted from filing false tax returns for clients and yesterday’s sentence demonstrates that willfully interfering with the integrity of our nation’s tax system will result in fraudsters spending time in prison.”

The judge ordered both women to pay the IRS almost $4 million in restitution.