2 IRS Employees From Suffolk Charged With Grand Larceny: DA

patch.com ^ | October 13, 2023 | Michael DeSantis,

[lowbridge]

Two Internal Revenue Service employees were arrested, Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney said on Friday.

Tina White, 36, of Bellport, and Shawana Williams, 45, of Centereach, were accused of stealing thousands of dollars by filing separate, fraudulent Small Business Administration loan applications, Tierney said.

"These individuals are alleged to have stolen government funds by abusing a program intended to help legitimate small business owners pay their employees during the COVID-19 pandemic," Tierney said in a news release. "I want to thank the United States Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration for working with my office to investigate and prosecute those who would steal taxpayer funds."

On May 7, 2020, and July 6, 2020, respectively, White and Williams filed COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan applications with the Small Business Administration and claimed to be the owners of businesses in need of financial assistance because of the economic impact of the pandemic, prosecutors said.

White claimed to be the chief operating officer of an agricultural business, while Williams claimed to be the chief operating officer of a medical services business, investigators said.

Neither business existed, however, the DA said.

White received $6,000 and Williams received $4,000 as initial cash advancements while their respective loan applications were being processed, officials said. Both loan applications were ultimately denied, but White and Williams never returned the illicit money they received, authorities said.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

LOL...the entire IRS and federal government ought to be indicted on the same charge.

[Tench_Coxe]

Not to worry. Their replacements can come out of the 87,000 new hires Biden, Pelosi, and company approved.

[ConservativeInPA]

When there is no IRS there are no IRS employees committing grand larceny and there is no weaponization of the IRS against citizens. There are other ways of funding government than the current tax code and the monstrosity called the IRS.

[frank ballenger]

They may be crooked but like their 1920s era crime mob ancestors, they are sometimes armed.

Reuters article 12 years ago....
Business News. March 20, 2012

IRS Forms “SWAT team” For Tax Dodger Crackdown
By Patrick Temple-West
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The IRS has spent $35.2 million on guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment since 2006, including $10 million in weaponry and gear since 2020.Jun 13, 2023. .ernst.senate.gov/ (US Senator (R) Iowa).
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2023....
IRS plans to hire gun-carrying special agents in all 50 states.
Fox Business
Apr 27, 2023 — Special agents with the IRS’ Criminal Investigation division are the only IRS agents permitted by law to carry firearms as part of their duties.
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Literally stated in the IRS legal authority list under “Investigative Property”
Part 9. Criminal Investigation
Chapter 11. Fiscal and Personnel Matters
Section 3. INVESTIGATIVE PROPERTY
9.11.3 INVESTIGATIVE PROPERTY
Manual Transmittal
March 13, 2023
(13) Subsections 9.11.3.8.1(3), (4), (5), and (6) added verbiage “IRS-issued and/or authorized personally-owned”,

(14) Subsection 9.11.3.8.1(4) added verbiage “. If the safety locking device used permits, the firearm should be stored holstered in the safety locking device, ready for duty carry. If the safety locking device does not permit the weapon to be stored holstered, extra care should be taken to store the loaded and unholstered weapon inside the device.”.

(15) Subsection 9.11.3.10.4(1) Added verbiage “or approved for use”.

(16) Subsection 9.11.3.10.4(2) replaced .40 caliber with 9mm. Replaced 224 with 5MOS. Replaced 23 with 19MOS. Updated 27 to 26. Removed last sentence of the paragraph and added “Special agents will be issued one of these pistols on a permanent basis and will retain their assigned pistol during their entire career unless the weapon is recalled for repair or replacement. In addition, the Smith and Wesson AR-15 carbine and the Beretta 1301 shotgun are the standard-issue long-guns to trained members of the IRS-CI long-gun cadre. Members of the long-gun will be issued one or both of these firearms long-guns on a permanent basis depending on weapon availability.”
https://www.irs.gov/irm/part9/irm_09-011-003#:~:text=In%20addition%2C%20the%20Smith%20and,basis%20depending%20on%20weapon%20availability.%E2%80%9D

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[Vaduz]

No wonder Biden hired 87,000 IRS agent their his kind of people.

[existentially_kuffer]

Just curious white or black?

[Major Matt Mason]

I'm sure most of the 87,000 will be like these two gems - corrupt and worthless.

[vetvetdoug]

Articles show the picture of the white DA but none of the perps which tells me they are black female affirmative action hired Democrats.

[Liz]

HOW BIDENS SAP-HAPPY COVID-19 BENEFITS GIVEAWAY WORKED

Paycheck Protection Program — Small Business Administration

<><>Provided small businesses with loans for up to eight weeks
<><> included all payroll costs, including benefits, to help them during the COVID-19 pandemic.
<><>The money also could be used to pay rent, utilities and mortgage interest.
<><>The loans provided the lesser of $10 million or 2.5 times monthly payroll costs.
<><>often forgiven, didn’t have to be repaid, if businesses said they retained employees for a certain period.
<><>A company in the program could not have more than 500 employees.

Economic Injury Disaster Loan — SBA

<><>Provided loans of up to $2 million to help small businesses recover from the economic impacts of the pandemic.
<><>The loans were not forgivable. But small businesses also could get grants of up to $10,000 that didn’t need to be repaid.
<><>The company could not have more than 500 employees.

Pandemic unemployment assistance — joint federal-state program

<><>In California one of the biggest targets of unemployment fraud during the pandemic, the program provided 86 weeks of benefits from Feb. 2, 2020, to Sept. 4, 2021, with a standard weekly benefit of $167 to $450.
<><>In Illinois, the standard weekly benefit was $51 to $484, also ending in September 2021.

SOURCES: U.S. Small Business Administration, California Employment Development Department, Illinois Department of Employment Security

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chicagosuntimes.com
By Frank Main
Oct 6, 2023

Biden’s trillion dollar COVID-19 relief funds went to gangs, fueled Chicago’s illegal gun market, even financed a mob hit

In Chicago, the price of illegal guns soared during the pandemic, but gangs were able to pay for them with COVID-19 relief money obtained fraudulently, agents say.

When COVID-19 struck in 2020, the Biden government quickly put together massive aid programs to help struggling businesses, along with the people who lost their jobs.

But other kinds of enterprises with names like the Traveling Vice Lords and the Wild 100s — criminal street gangs in Chicago and across the country — soon figured out how to take advantage of that safety net. They defrauded those programs of millions of dollars that they used to buy guns and drugs, according to the U.S. Justice Department and court records.

Incarcerated crooks were in on the act, too. The government estimates that, across the country, at least one-quarter of a billion dollars in fraudulent unemployment insurance benefits went to inmates in federal prisons.

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[Vaduz]

Agree

[flaglady47]

The one woman’s name, Shawana, sure sounds like a black name to me.

[Paladin2]

She-wana Steele?

[Larry Lucido]

[Magnum44]

Shawana? 🙄

[Night Hides Not]

They’re both obviously incompetent. I don’t know of anyone who was turned down for a PPP.

[Night Hides Not]

PPP fraud is a target rich environment.

[FlingWingFlyer]

So that leaves only 87,998 with guns that we have to worry about.

[Fido969]

They just wanted to “wet their beaks” a little.