Fraud by DC tax examiner
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 2:34 pm
Shocking news... brazen criminality by DC government employee.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/for ... story.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/for ... story.html
A former tax examiner for the D.C. government admitted in federal court Thursday that she stole more than $400,000 in fraudulent tax refunds during a four-year span.
In pleading guilty to a wire fraud, Mary Ayers-Zander, 47, faces up to 63 months in prison under federal guidelines when sentenced on Feb. 2 in the District’s federal court.
Federal prosecutors said that Ayers-Zander orchestrated her scheme from 2007 through early this year. As a tax examiner, Ayers-Zander accessed taxpayer accounts of four people and then credited them with fraudulent withholding adjustments, prosecutors said.
In court, Ayers-Zander admitted she then made sure those credits — worth $365,281 — were routed to two personal accounts that she controlled, according to prosecutors.
Even at the local level in Washington, it's surprising that paltry sum was even news worthy. Must have been a slow day.