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Fraudulent Tax Returns Net Illegal Millions for Prisoners
Loaded on May 15, 2007
by Gary Hunter
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2007, page 22
Arizona prisoners are so adept at defrauding the IRS that U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth (AZ) dubbed the dilemma ?Operation H&R (Cell) Block.?
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Criminal Prosecution,
Crime,
Money/Property,
Tax Law.
Location:
United States of America.
The business of bilking Uncle Sam from within Arizona prisons accounted for about half of the state?s fraudulent income tax claims in 2005. ?It?s time we put it ...
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