It took them long enough, but they finally got around to it yesterday:
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.
It's hard to say why blacks seem to have such a fascination with stupid names, but a lot of them certainly do. "Nakeisha"? Really? What's up with that? Anyway...
A federal grand jury earlier this month indicted NAKEISHA HALL, JIMMIE GOODMAN and ABDULLA COLEMAN for their involvement in a 2008 to 2011 scheme operated out of Birmingham that involved stealing personal identity information from the Internal Revenue Service to create fraudulent tax returns and collecting the stolen refunds, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, IRS Criminal Investigation, St. Louis Field Office, Special Agent in Charge Karl A. Stiften, and Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, Mid-States Field Division, Special Agent in Charge Ruben Florez. The indictment was unsealed with today’s arrests.
"Nakeisha" worked out of Birmingham from 2007 to 2011 before moving to other offices around the country. It's comforting to know that the IRS thoroughly vets their personnel, isn't it? This idiot was stealing names, birthdates, and SSN data through the IRS computers and used that to prepare fake tax returns to get big refunds, and apparently didn't think that she could ever be caught.
Your voice at the IRS indeed.
