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Former IRS Employee Charged with Tax Fraud
A federal grand jury in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, returned an indictment in July, which was unsealed yesterday, charging a South Carolina man with tax evasion and attempting to obstruct an IRS civil audit and an IRS criminal investigation. According to the indictment, Wayne M. Garvin, currently of Columbia, South Carolina, and…
IRS Employee Charged With Unlawful Disclosure Of Suspicious Activity Reports
Analyst Provided Information to a Los Angeles Attorney and a New York Reporter SAN FRANCISCO – A federal criminal complaint, filed on February 4, 2019, was unsealed in San Francisco today, charging John C. Fry with unlawful disclosure of Suspicious Activity Reports, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and…
IRS employee charged with tax fraud
MEMPHIS, TN — Linda Williams of Memphis, Tennessee, an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax examiner, was indicted for defrauding the IRS by filing false tax returns for various taxpayers in the Memphis area. Williams claimed over $500,000 in false deductions for these citizens. Many of these citizens were unaware of the…
IRS service center employee charged with filing hundreds of false tax returns
BOSTON – An employee of the IRS service center in Andover was charged today with filing over 500 false tax returns for herself and other individuals. Jennifer Beth True of Lawrence was charged with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. True will make an initial appearance in federal court in…
24 Current And Former IRS Employees Indicted For Benefits Fraud
Memphis, TN – United States Attorney Edward L. Stanton III and Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich announced today that 24 current and former employees of the Internal Revenue Service have been charged for crimes relating to fraudulently obtaining more than $250,000 in government benefits. Thirteen of the current…
IRS Employee Charged in $1 Million ID Theft Tax Fraud Scheme
BIRMINGHAM — Federal officials today announced arrests and charges in a stolen identity tax-refund scheme believed to involve more than $1 million in false claims and run by an IRS employee who was supposed to be assisting taxpayers experiencing problems resulting from identity theft. A federal grand jury earlier this…
Former DOJ Attorney Sentenced To 30 Months In Prison For Obstruction Of Justice And Interstate Transportation Of Stolen Property
CFEG reports that on March 17, 2018, a former Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney was sentenced to 30 months in prison for obstruction of justice and transportation of stolen property. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-doj-attorney-pleads-guilty-obstruction-justice-and-interstate-transportation According to the Department of Justice announcement the former DOJ attorney abused his position for personal gain and violated…
Potentially tens of thousands’ of cases gone wrong
In July 2013, the FBI admitted that the foundations of what it called “hair comparison evidence” – a technique that its agents had used in hundreds of criminal cases nationwide and spread through the training of state-based detectives potentially through tens of thousands of other cases – were scientifically invalid….
Thirty years in jail for a single hair: the FBI’s ‘mass disaster’ of false conviction
In 2013, the FBI admitted that the foundations of what it called ‘hair comparison evidence’ were scientifically invalid. Photograph: Sarah Lee George Perrot has spent almost 30 years in prison thanks to a single hair. It was discovered by an FBI agent on the bedsheet of a 78-year-old woman who…
FBI lawyer under criminal investigation altered document to say Carter Page ‘was not a source’ for another agency
The FBI became close to correcting a mistake in the third and final warrant application renewal targeting onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, but an FBI lawyer improperly altered a document to cover up that the bureau had erred in the previous filings. In a report released on Monday, Justice…
FBI’s Wray Acts Fast to Make Changes After Scathing Report
WASHINGTON—FBI Director Christopher Wray has ordered more than 40 changes in how the bureau seeks secret surveillance warrants and handles other matters after the Justice Department inspector general pointed out a series of flaws in the bureau’s efforts to monitor a former Trump campaign adviser. The problems were so severe, national security…
Justice Department Accused of Abusing Process to Extend Statute of Limitations
Justice Department lawyers have improperly used requests for overseas evidence to buy more time to bring some fraud cases, a memo filed with the agency’s internal watchdog alleges. The document, filed Friday and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, accuses prosecutors of sending such a request to the U.K. when…
