Probe is over, but IRS still eyes apparel biz. (Irwin Feiner)

Daily News Record, May, 1988 by Wilner, Rich

Probe Is Over, But IRS Still Eyes Apparel Biz NEW YORK (FNS) -- In about three weeks, former apparel executive Irwin Feiner will slip behind bars at a federal prison to begin his 3-1/2-year sentence for not paying taxes on about $26 million earned through a phony-invoicing scheme. His trip behind bars will cap a seven-year investigation in the apparel district, the largest tax probe the industry has ever experienced.

Despite the end of the phohy-invoicing probe, Randy D. Vaughn, the chief of the Manhattan office of the Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigative Division, said in an interview that his agents were still active in the industry.

In fact, he said, IRS agents are much better today at detecting apparel-related frauds than they were...

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