penalties/fines/jail time for gooberment workers should be double or triple of whatever a taxpayer would get for same...
Posted on 04/17/2013 3:37:11 PM PDT by markomalley
Justice Department officials released the indictment of 13 current and former IRS employees charged with “stealing from American taxpayers” by falsely claiming to be unemployed in order to receive food stamps, unemployment insurance, welfare, and housing insurance.
“According to the allegations in the indictments, while these IRS employees were supposed to be serving the public, they were instead brazenly stealing from law-abiding American taxpayers,” U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III said in a statement Wednesday. “These charges demonstrate our unwavering resolve to work with our law enforcement partners and hold accountable anyone who fraudulently obtains government benefits and violates the public’s trust.”
The IRS employees are charged with “fraudulently obtaining more than $250,000 in government benefits” and face up to five years in prison for each charge of making a false statement.
The number of Americans receiving benefits from such programs has spiked since the beginning of the recession. “The number of people receiving benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly called food stamps) has risen sharply in recent years — from about 26 million in 2007 to nearly 47 million in 2012,” the Congressional Budget Office said in a snapshot of the program released this week. “Total spending on SNAP has also grown significantly — from $35 billion in 2007 to $80 billion in 2012.”
Wow. Just imagine what will happen when they find out Hussein used bogus Sosha Security numbers.
I wonder what social he puts on his tax return?
DOJ indicts IRS employees for ‘brazenly stealing from law-abiding American taxpayers’
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“I’ll take Political Irony for $500, Alex.”
SO.....What else is new?
That's what Government has been doing for decades, via ignoring the Constitution, and pandering for votes to keep them in Power....buying Votes with Taxpayer handouts, and keeping the duped on the Government-dole, and voting Democrat......
This is the agency whose ‘employees’ will both sign up people for 0bamacare AND enforce 0bamacare.
This is the agency which illegally SEIZED millions of Americans’ health care records in 2011. Whose did they steal? Which laws are swimming easily through Congress and media types reporting like the good ‘Germans’ they are?
Sweet. Time now to go after congress.
penalties/fines/jail time for gooberment workers should be double or triple of whatever a taxpayer would get for same...
Oh DOJ is just mad because they didn’t steal it first... Lol
no doubt!
Get a rope!
They were just following Hussein's example!
Can we see some pictures of the perps please?
It is like cockroaches. If you SEE 13, there are THOUSANDS in the shadows.
Here are the names:
“”According to federal prosecutors, the 14 who lied to receive government benefits are: Angela Allison, 37; Jessica Davis, 35; Serina Gaither, 37; Teresa Jenkins, 46; Joanne Johnson, 46; Cynthia McKinney, 38; Angela Scales, 28; Dorothy Simmons, 35; Mary Weeks, 61; Evonna Yarbrough, 42, all of Memphis, along with Gale Baker, 54, of Cordova; Shari House, 45, of Jackson, and Talaria Mitchell, 35, of Southaven, Miss.”
“The 11 charged in state court are identified as: Raya Banks, 47; Clara Cannon, 61; Alma Childers, 64; Cathryn Fair, 50; Robert Graves, 60; Mechell Hampton, 35; Nicole Nickson, 39; Diane Malone, 56; Myra Thompson, 32; Katina Thurman, 39, and Pamela Williams, 47, all of Memphis.”
Bwahahahaha!
Can there really be two dumbass Cynthia McKinneys in this world.
sfl
To: markomalley
It is like cockroaches. If you SEE 13, there are THOUSANDS in the shadows......
why not start at the top with Odumbo. He’s been stealing from us all since day one.
It’s only the tip of the iceberg —
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