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RANDOM WALK: GIMME SHELTER: SOME TAX SCHEMES DON'T FLY.
Crain's Chicago Business, April, 1999 by McMANUS, TERRY
If you see Horace Edward Bressler around, tell him the Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigative Division is looking for him. On second thought, maybe you should just avoid him. The U.S. marshal in Chicago has issued a warrant for his arrest and describes him as armed and dangerous, according to an IRS Web site.
So, what is the 76-year- old man charged with? Failure to file income taxes. Even if Mr. Bressler never gets caught, others will. Between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 1998, the IRS Criminal Investigative Division initiated nearly 1,000 fraud investigations nationwide and sent 466 violators to prison. In the last three fiscal years, the IRS has put roughly 9,000 citizens in jail for income tax evasion and other financial shenanigans. But those...
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