Watchdog: IRS workers steal taxpayer data to plunder the Treasury

Published April 22, 2016 8:54pm ET



The Treasury Department’s Inspector General for Tax Administration said this week that three current and former IRS employees have been caught trying to steal money as taxpayers try to pay off their tax debts.

In one case, former Missouri IRS employee Demetria Brown was sentenced in February after pleading guilty to wire fraud and identity theft.

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