IRS employees sentenced for stealing tax refunds

Published September 28, 2016 5:07pm ET



Two IRS employees are being sent to prison for defrauding taxpayers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to Treasury Department inspector general reports released Wednesday.

The office said IRS employee Nakisha Hall used her position to access the personal information of hundreds of taxpayers between 2008 and 2011, creating fraudulent returns on her own computer and receiving more than $550,000 in tax refunds she requested be sent in the form of debit cards.

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