Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late 1986, after the IRS dropped a tax case against Guess that had been initiated by Jordache, top agency officials began to investigate Saranow's possible role. The probe intensified in 1987, when Saranow's office dropped charges against Jeff Hamilton only days after that firm withdrew a lawsuit it had filed against Guess. Meanwhile, the IRS rejected Saranow's request to take a leave of absence and work for Guess, as his deputy, Howard Emirhanian, had done a year earlier. Saranow was cleared of charges of wrongdoing...
Another disturbing incident involves Frank Santella, formerly an assistant regional inspector in the IRS's Chicago office. In 1984 Santella's three deputies complained to Joseph Jech, the IRS's Midwest regional inspector, that their boss had released confidential tax data to a mob-linked company in exchange for illegal gifts such as theater tickets and expensive dinners. One year later, their charges ignored, the whistle-blowers sought help from IRS officials in Washington. As a result, Santella received a twelve-day suspension without pay -- whereupon a group of senior IRS officials chipped in to reimburse...
...officials involved in harassing the whistle-blowers was John McManus, who is also the subject of investigation by the subcommittee. McManus, a former deputy assistant commissioner of the IRS, was permitted to retire quietly from the agency in 1987 after a tax case against him was initiated. In April 1988, shortly after Barnard's subcommittee stumbled across his case, the IRS sent McManus a "notice of deficiency" seeking nearly $100,000 in back taxes and penalties...
...investigators not to talk unless IRS attorneys are present. The agency's lawyers travel across the nation in tandem with congressional investigators and relay the witnesses' testimony to senior IRS officials in Washington. One key informant, a former IRS agent, claims that he has been audited repeatedly by the tax agency in retaliation for reporting corruption within its ranks. At next month's hearings, he plans to disclose how two Treasury Department attorneys visited him in December with what he interpreted as a warning that Gibbs, who was still IRS commissioner at the time, did not want to be contradicted...
...murders and most drug offenses. Fighting those crimes is almost exclusively a state and local responsibility. A mere 118 of the 47,700 inmates held in federal penitentiaries have been convicted of murder. More than 83% of federal prisoners are serving time for such offenses as counterfeiting, embezzlement, tax evasion and nonviolent drug offenses...