Word: saranow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rivals at Los Angeles-based jeansmaker Guess, Inc., were involved, and they were right. The IRS raid and a subsequent grand-jury investigation of possible tax violations by Jordache were triggered by tips supplied by Guess to one of the most powerful IRS officials on the West Coast: Ronald Saranow, who then headed the Los Angeles office of the service's criminal-investigation division. Saranow later asked to take an unpaid leave from the IRS to accept a job at Guess. More than three years have passed since the raid, and no tax charge has been brought against Jordache...
...officials in Southern California believe they are confronting the vanguard of such deceptions. "Many forms of tax evasion-the ideas-seem to start in California and spread elsewhere, just as fads start out here," says Ron Saranow, chief of the IRS Criminal Investigations Division for the region. One of the local figures who most irritate California tax authorities is Armen Condo, a self-styled "maverick minister" who heads an organization called Your Heritage Protection Association, based in Orange County. With a dues-paying flock of 15,000, Condo took in an estimated $2 million in three years while preaching...