Posted on 04/26/2017 7:46:16 AM PDT by DFG
Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, April 24, 2017 IRS Employee Indicted for Stealing Taxpayers’ IDs and Filing Fraudulent Returns
A federal grand jury sitting in the Northern District of Georgia indicted an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employee today for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney John A. Horn for the Northern District of Georgia.
According to the indictment, since November 2010, Stephanie Parker of Atlanta, Georgia, worked at the IRS and had access to taxpayers’ personal identifying information, such as social security numbers and dates of birth. The indictment alleges that between September 2012 and April 2013, Parker exploited her IRS accesses to steal such personal information, which she then used to file tax returns seeking refunds in the names of other individuals. Parker allegedly directed the fraudulently obtained refunds into nominee bank accounts and used some of those funds to purchase money orders.
An indictment merely alleges that crimes have been committed. The defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
If convicted, Parker faces a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for each count of wire fraud and a statutory minimum sentence of two years in prison for the aggravated identity theft counts. She also faces a period of supervised release, restitution and monetary penalties.
Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Goldberg and U.S. Attorney Horn commended special agents of IRS–Criminal Investigation and Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), who conducted the investigation, and Trial Attorneys Michael Boteler and Melanie Smith of the Tax Division, who are prosecuting this case.
Additional information about the Tax Division and its enforcement efforts may be found on the division’s website. 17-455 Tax Division USAO - Georgia, Northern Topic: Tax Updated April 25, 2017
Maximum punishment. Sell her organs to fund victim compensation. (Maybe that’s a bit strong, but you get the idea. No country club slap on the wrist sentence for this kind of crime, which abuses power and trust. No tolerance.)
Lock her up.
I suspect Ms. Parker is no relation to Bonnie Parker.
I’m sure she believed she was getting a down payment on the reparations Obama said we owe her.
Even Claude Raines would be shocked................
I bet you find a swamp in the GA IRS office if you dig. She did not learn that on her own, most likely their are others.
tip of the iceberg. swamp draining is taking too long.
if this one is a criminal .. NAME THEM.
She fits right in as a govt bureaucrat defrauding the people and stealing from them. You know she votes DemoRat as sure as their corruptions run deep state.
Good. We need more of this
She probably could get off scot-free if she told them she’s an illegal alien forced to use stolen ID because of our brutal immigration laws.
Well, I hope the Prosecutor can get the evidence from the IRS before the Statute of Limitations expires.
Punishment for stealing ID & filing a false return should be hanging.
At least Mad Maxine Waters can game the system for personal reward$ without consequence$. Some corrupted sistas are more equal than others.
I wonder how many others there are.
The IRS can’t safeguard my information. Shut it down.
The IRS exists because it is a government power tool of intimidation.
They don’t need the actual revenue because, as they have shown us from QE 1 on, they just print more “money” whenever they choose.
Back in the ‘60s I had a credit card stolen thanks to a ring of USPS employees. They could ID credit cards coming thru the mail, take them and do a quick sample run to see if they could get by with a minor purchase before going big time. Fortunately the theft of mine was caught during the trial period.
But, for @ $54 theft that didn’t even go through, a postal clerk became a felon, lost her job, and was precluded from any future government employment. She probably made a deal to give up her co-conspirators to avoid jail time. I am not sure how that went.
IMO, there are more rings of crime in the US government than any of us realize. That is not to condemn the entire government workforce, but at low levels, i.e., mail room, clerks, etc., I believe it is fairly widespread.
What about obama stealing a SSN?
Indict him too.
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