It’s a long fall from professional athlete to (allegedly) ripping off identities in order to harvest fraudulent tax refunds, but these three guys appear to have pulled it off.
Former NY Giants defensive tackle William Joseph, Vikings running back Michael Bennett, and Patriots defensive tackle Louis Gachelin were allegedly part of a scheme to steal social security numbers and use the victims’ identities to file false tax returns claiming refunds.
Unfortunately, such deviousness is not an isolated incident:
A Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration report indicated that through March 3, the IRS had identified more than 441,000 tax returns claiming $2.7 billion in fraudulent refunds and prevented the issuance of $2.6 billion (97 percent) of those fraudulent refunds.
