Missing tax dollars raise eyebrows

The $20 million federal investigators say was ripped off from the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue accounted for more than one refund dollar out of every five distributed between 2003 and 2007, raising questions about how it could possibly have gone undetected.

“Didn’t anybody notice?” asked Mary Levy, a schools and budget expert for the Washington Lawyers Committee. “Obviously, the higher-ups weren’t paying attention.”