Posted on 04/18/2025 4:36:47 PM PDT by CFW
JONESBORO, Ga. — The U.S. Department of Justice said a Jonesboro man with a made up story is facing real consequences after trying to get tax refunds for businesses he didn’t own.
According to USDOJ, Christopher Dowtin, 48, was investigated by the Internal Revenue Service on federal charges for allegedly “fraudulently convert[ing] two businesses’ IRS accounts to his name and address.”
Doing so, he got a tax refund check for more than $32 million.
Charging documents say Dowtin submitted fraudulent IRS forms claiming to be the responsible party for two companies.
In December, the IRS processed eight change of address or responsible party forms for Dowtin, and his requests for those changes were accepted.
USDOJ said Dowtin “ultimately received two tax refund checks for those companies: one in the amount of $32,495,888.58 and one in the amount of $26,156.50.”
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Didn't anyone at the IRS think that there was possibly fraud involved after the 3rd or 4th address change request by a business? Don't they have confirmation processes that have to be completed? Apparently not.
It’s easier to get millions from the IRS than it is to buy cold medicine.
It ticks me off to read this story right here during “tax week” especially after remembering that the Democrats wanted to hire 80,000 more DEI IRS employees of the same ilk. Government agencies have become a jobs program for the incompetent who are unemployable in the private sector.
Last week the Amish in our community were not allowed to change their address when they moved as they did not have photo ID to show the post office. True story.
Have y’all tried to change your address lately?
Two trips to the P.O., and more red tape for us “Normals”.
This is somewhat mindblowing, how easy it seems to be to defraud the IRS.
Of course, the man was eventually caught, but there was a window where he had the money and could have skipped the country, ending up somewhere abroad.
well upon initial knee jerk, I thought Hot Damn! they are finally going after one. but reading from the source reality set in that it wasnt the DOJ that initiated the investigation it was a called in report from a private bank...
In other words they were put on the spot to act.
...(walks away in a pout, knuckles dragging on the ground...)
Christopher Dowtin should have contacted Hunter first he knows his work well.
well upon initial knee jerk, I thought Hot Damn! they are finally going after one. but reading from the source reality set in that it wasnt the DOJ that initiated the investigation it was a called in report from a private bank...
Yep. It took someone at a small pod-dunk Ohio financial institution to look at the amounts and think “This doesn’t look right. I should probably double-check all this information”. The IRS after 8 address changes? “This sounds normal, let’s send the guy millions.”
On a positive note, surfing around the normal hangouts on the web after a half day at work, 7 out of 10 comments on every article I seen are asking “Why no Arrests!?”, “When are we going to see arrests!?”, “When are they going to Prison!?”
Maybe, just a hopeful Maybe, well see something soon if this keeps up!!
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