Word: saranow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...admitted that an agent "discarded" many internal documents concerning an IRS raid in 1986 that Saranow initiated against Guess's nemesis, Jordache Enterprises. The Justice Department is investigating the incident...
...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...