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...course, sometimes even high-level government employees could use some monitoring. Last month former IRS official Robert Roche was indicted for selling nonpublic marital records to Saranow, Wells & Emirhanian, a California-based investigation outfit run by ex-IRS officials. If convicted of the offense, Roche, who was the highest-ranking IRS criminal investigator in New Jersey until he retired in 1988, faces up to 12 years in prison. "I'm afraid these kinds of business crimes will become more and more prominent in the future," says U.S. Attorney Michael Chertoff, whose Newark office is involved in both...
...York City headquarters, confiscating 1 million documents and virtually paralyzing the company's operations. Jordache officials suspected that their archenemies at Guess, Inc. were somehow involved. Sure enough, the raid and subsequent grand jury criminal case against Jordache was the result of information supplied by Guess to Ronald Saranow, a top IRS official...
...House subcommittee concluded last summer that Guess used improper influence, including a job offer, to persuade Saranow to go after Jordache. In addition, the IRS agent who spearheaded the raid is now the target of two federal investigations...
...until recently the IRS assistant commissioner of criminal investigation, allegedly flew repeatedly around the U.S. at the agency's expense to visit a mistress. He also is suspected of taking thousands of dollars' worth of IRS training materials for use in a private-investigation network that he started with Saranow and other retired IRS kingpins. Langone denies the charges...
...Saranow and his personal lawyer, Richard Trattner, a former IRS employee, carried out an unauthorized "amnesty" 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...