Word: cased
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best-known case of alleged IRS duplicity, details of which were reported exclusively in TIME last May, the subcommittee found that the agency was "inept" in probing the activities of staffer Ronald Saranow of Los Angeles. Saranow is suspected of using his influence as one of the most powerful officers of the IRS Criminal Investigation Division to encourage two tax probes against foes of Los Angeles-based jeansmaker Guess, Inc., for whom Saranow planned to work after his retirement in 1987. Saranow has denied any wrongdoing...
...program for Trattner's tax-evading clients. For years, Trattner supplied the IRS with anonymous, remedial tax payments from the clients, as well as keys to hidden safe-deposit boxes containing the unfiled tax returns of the cheaters. The purpose: to reduce the culpability of Trattner's clients in case they were investigated. If that happened, Trattner would steer the IRS to the tax returns as evidence of his client's participation...
Even George Bush got into the act, telling reporters that the case against Bloch was a "very serious matter." That was as far as the Government was willing to go on an official level. The State Department confirmed that Bloch is being investigated for a "compromise of security which has occurred," but at week's end no charges had been filed against him, and he remained on paid leave from the department at an estimated $80,000 annual salary. Austrian officials confirmed that they were investigating a "phony Finn" who had traveled to Vienna several times on a forged passport...
...investigators and reporters jostled for scraps of information about yet another apparent traitor, did anyone care that under the law Bloch was still presumed innocent? His case may indeed prove to be the most serious spy scandal to come out of the State Department since the Alger Hiss affair. But, wrote columnist Lars-Erik Nelson of the New York Daily News, Bloch "is also a U.S. citizen, entitled to due process before execution." Charles Schmitz, vice president of the American Foreign Service Association, said the baying after Bloch was "terrible either way -- for his rights if innocent, for the case...
When news of the scandal broke, much of the case against Bloch still consisted of statements from intelligence sources and evidence gathered by methods that might not even be admissible at a trial. Under U.S. law, direct evidence is required of the transfer to foreigners of damaging secret information. Sources claim that Bloch, 54, a 30-year State Department veteran, was photographed passing a briefcase to a known Soviet agent in Paris. Reportedly, the same agent later tipped Bloch off to the investigation: "A bad virus is going around, and we believe you are now infected...