The San Francisco Chronicle reports that “a woman who stalled on paying a $55,000 bill she racked up at a Novato hotel over two years falsely claimed she was an undercover Internal Revenue Service agent who was having trouble getting paid”:
About four years ago, Sherry Vertoch told John Marshall, one of the hotel’s owners, that she was one of six IRS agents with specific clearance in the United States who can investigate certain large public companies. Vertoch also said she had testified in the Enron case and had “finally brought them down,” authorities said.
Sherry Lynn Vertoch, 64, who has never been employed by the IRS, has been charged in U.S. District Court in San Francisco with impersonating a federal employee. She appeared in court Wednesday but did not enter a plea.
Vertoch… told hotel employees soon after she moved in that she was working with the IRS, Special Agent John Hartman of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration wrote in a court affidavit.
Ms. Vertoch would have made a more convincing IRS employee had she misplaced a tax return, given the wrong tax advice over the telephone or failed to answer taxpayer inquiries.
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1 x x // Feb 9, 2010 at 11:36 pm
Wow. Cheap shot there are thousands of hard working IRS employees.
2 Peter // Feb 10, 2010 at 6:22 pm
Of course there are. But if a private workforce had the record of inefficiency and incompetence the IRS workforce has, they’d be out of business in a fortnight.
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