$12 million in fraudulent tax-refund checks cashed by one guy in Miami

In just five months--this guy cashes $12 million in fraudulent tax-refund checks? Where was the IRS/Treasury Department? A little slow to catch on?--or just busy "line dancing"?

Convicted Miami-Dade check-cashing store owner sentenced to five years in tax-fraud case - Miami-Dade - MiamiHerald.com: "A convicted Miami-Dade check-cashing store owner who processed $12 million in fraudulent tax-refund checks was sentenced to nearly five years in prison . . . He invested the stolen millions in two houses, luxury cars, a retirement account and other business activities. . . . The pair’s scheme, while hardly unusual in one of the nation’s ID-theft, tax-fraud capitals, is nonetheless striking for the total value of Treasury Department checks cashed over such a short span. In a growing crime wave, perpetrators in South Florida, Tampa and other regions of the country are stealing the identities of various people — including prisoners, the dead, the poor and even children — to file bogus tax returns. . . ." (Read more here at link above)

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