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IRS employee charged with ID theft of co-workers

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Dissent

AP reports:

Federal prosecutors say a former IRS employee in Central California stole the identities of her co-workers and opened credit cards to go on shopping sprees with friends.

U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner announced Tuesday that 30-year-old Viririana Hernandez and three others stole $1.2 million from 160 people, many of them IRS employees. Prosecutors say they bought home goods, jewelry and clothes.

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