Broward clerk’s daughter sentenced to over 7 years on federal racketeering, fraud charges

Monika Jenkins, the daughter of Broward County Clerk of Court Brenda D. Forman, was sentenced Wednesday to more than seven years in federal prison for her involvement in a criminal group that used taxpayers’ and accounting firms’ stolen personal information and credentials to file false tax returns, netting millions.

The indictment was filed in the Middle District of Florida in September 2022, and Jenkins was arrested in South Florida in October 2022. She entered a plea agreement this August...