Posted on 04/22/2016 4:19:49 PM PDT by markomalley
The Treasury Department's Inspector General for Tax Administration said this week that three current and former IRS employees have been caught trying to steal money as taxpayers try to pay off their tax debts.
In one case, former Missouri IRS employee Demetria Brown was sentenced in February after pleading guilty to wire fraud and identity theft.
Her scheme was to obtain people's personal information, like Social Security Numbers and dates of birth, to file fraudulent federal and state tax returns.
"Using a false identity, Brown established an account with an Internet service provider and an email address in order to submit these false returns," the inspector general said. She also opened bank accounts in their names in five different states to collect the money over a four-year period.
Using that scheme, Brown took about $326,000 from the IRS. She was sentenced to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release, and also had to return the money.
In another case, Alabama IRS worker Nakeisha Hall pled guilty to similar charges in February. Hall accessed thousands of accounts and filed hundreds of returns claiming inflated refunds, and had those funds put on debit cards.
In this way, Hall and her conspirators defrauded the government of $550,000. She is set to be sentenced in June, and could face 32 years in prison.
A third case involves Creshika Wise, an Atlanta IRS worker who was arrested in January. Wise audited a couple who owed $758,846 in taxes, but she set up a scheme to ensure that most of this payment would go to her by tricking the IRS into thinking less was owed.
"Wise created a fictitious IRS Form 4549, Income Tax Examination Changes, for the taxpayers and placed the fictitious form in the IRS's files," the inspector general said. "The fictitious Form 4549 showed a balance due of only $282,363 rather than the $758,846 already agreed upon. Wise also forged the signature of the taxpayers' CPA on the fictitious form."
The schemes described show real skill and ability “not used for good”!
No politician can change anything. I get a chuckle wit today's political rhetoric that the grassroots are rising up and they are going to make the politicians do what they want...
It's a bit of an oxymoron thinking the grassroots will raise up and believe that their candidate will force a top down change of the culture.
No politician will or can change the course of this country. What will change it is the millions of individuals who do the right thing every day with no reward and no recognition.
At one time we had leaders in this Country who recognized that basic fact. Today we have politicians who know they cannot make any change but they can get very rich pretending they can and an gullible public who buys into and pays for their BS..
Obama sisters no doubt.
You don’t have to fight with every bureaucrat in the government.
All you need to do is take control of the pay computer.
Then, you start making mistakes.
People are dropped from the payroll.
You make them fill out forms.
You lose the forms.
You deny that they ever worked for the government.
You tell them there was a fire at the pay center and all the pay records were destroyed.
You call them old coots.
In other words, you treat the government employees like they treat Veterans.
Turnabout is fair play.
They’ll give up after a few years of no pay.
So it now seems that our three heroes are poised to fail upwards in the IRS. Maybe one of them can take Lois Lerner’s spot.
Wait until you see a similar pattern of behavior through OBungleCare .
When the computers were down, field workers brought copies of the documents home and promised to destroy after they got computer posted.
Information on those forms includes name,address, SS#, bank statements, last years tax return, etc.
So I don't think this criminal behavior is going to be limited to the IRS , your healthcare provider or insurance company , etc.
Come on they serve minimum time or time served and be reinstated as IRS agents or given good pensions. John Koskinen will make it all disappear just like all those e-mails of Lois Lerner. You know good agents like that are hard to find.
Sure...like a “flash-rob”. People that allegedly suffer from the “digital divide” can coordinate looting sprees at poorly-protected convenience stores...
With those names, probably. I dealt with one at the IRS years ago helping a friend with an audit; we were practically teaching her how to do her job.
You have to keep a close eye on those Amish babes.
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