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Florida Correctional Officer Sentenced to Prison for Tax Fraud Using Inmates’ Identities
U.S. Attorney’s Office, October 02, 2014 Middle District of Florida (813) 274-6000 TAMPA, FL—U.S. District Judge James S. Moody, Jr. has sentenced Jerry St. Fleur (26, Tampa) to four years and three months in federal prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. The Court also ordered him to forfeit…
Biggest IRS Scam Around: Identity Tax Refund Fraud
CBS – 60 Minutes: September 21, 2014 Con artists have been filing bogus tax returns and collecting millions. Steve Kroft finds out how far the scam has gone and why the IRS hasn’t been able to stop it. Read full article
Identity Theft: Additional Actions Could Help IRS Combat the Large, Evolving Threat of Refund Fraud
GAO-14-633: Published: Aug 20, 2014. Publicly Released: September 22, 2014 What GAO Found Based on preliminary analysis, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) estimates it paid $5.2 billion in fraudulent identity theft (IDT) refunds in filing season 2013, while preventing $24.2 billion (based on what it could detect). The full extent is…
GAO: Action Needed to Combat $5 Billion Tax Refund Fraud
New Report Calls on IRS to Implement Stronger Safeguards to Protect Private Taxpayer Information Sarah Swinehart, September 22 WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) must take bold and innovative action to combat more than $5 billion in fraudulent identity theft tax refunds, according to a new report by the…
Congress Cracking Down on Tax-Refund Fraud
SUN SENTINEL AND ORLANDO SENTINEL By William E. Gibson, Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Congress is moving to crack down on tax-return fraud, a form of identity theft that has exploded across Florida in recent years. The House passed a bill this week introduced by U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz that…
FBI Warns: Fake Tax Returns Soaring
By MITCH LIPKA CBS NEWS July 10, 2014 The FBI’s online fraud site, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), issued an alert on Thursday that complaints from victims about phony tax returns being filed using their information doubled from 2013 to this year. "Some complainants reported that before filing their 2013 taxes,…
