What was the address? What were the names? This smells of fraud. Some one, maybe many someones, need to go to jail.
I agree, if we find an actual street number it will tell us a lot more.
http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2012reports/201242081fr.pdf
The Table of Contents of the Gummint Report is informative:
Background
.......................................................................................................... Page 1
Results of Review
............................................................................................... Page 6
Management Has Created an Environment Which
Discourages Employees From Detecting Fraudulent
Applications .................................................................................................. Page 7
Recommendations 1 through 3:
......................................... Page 11
Management Has Eliminated Processes Used to Identify
Questionable Individual Taxpaye
r Identification Number
Application Patterns and Schemes ................................................................ Page 12
Recommendations 4 through 6:
......................................... Page 21
Processes Are Not Adequate to Verify Each Applicant’s
Identity and Foreign Status ........................................................................... Page 21
Recommendations 7 through 9:
......................................... Page 30
Appendices
Appendix I – Detailed Objective,
Scope, and Methodology ........................ Page 31
Appendix II – Major Contributors
to This Report ........................................ Page 37
Appendix III – Report Distribution List ....................................................... Page 38
Appendix IV – Form W-7,
Application for IRS
Individual
Taxpayer Identification
................................................................................. Page 39
Appendix V – Management’s Response to the Draft Report ....................... Page 40