Posted on 10/25/2023 10:51:33 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A Massachusetts father and his two sons used a covert network of convenience stores and tax-shy scratch-off winners to defraud the lottery of more than $20 million, officials said.
Ali Jaafar, 63, of Watertown, had tried to pass off his winning streak as luck — but the lottery commission launched an investigation into the “factually or statistically improbable” results, according to the Boston Globe’s reporting on the saga Tuesday.
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“”Ali Jaafar””
Just a way of life for someone with a name like that....
“Tax violations have been erroneously referred to as victimless crimes, but it’s the honest law-abiding citizen who is harmed when someone tries to manipulate our nation’s tax system.”
lol Joleen sounds like my sister who issued an irs form ss-4 to my gf who watched their kids a few hours a week so they could go to dinner.
personally I consider what the govt is currently doing with the taxes I pay the true crime.
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