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This may be the dumbest idea since the firebox trap.¹

WebCPA reports that a woman was charged with attempting to bribe an IRS official with $2,000, a package containing promissory notes and a $100 Starbucks gift card:

Kim Oahn Thi Tran, also known as Jennifer Kim Tran, was charged in a San Francisco federal court, according to the Associated Press. According to prosecutors, she was being audited by the IRS, and auditors found that she owed over $13,000 in taxes on unreported income earned in 2006 and 2007.

She allegedly sent the package with the Starbucks gift card and promissory notes to IRS agent Imad Hararah last November. Prosecutors claim she met with him the following month to give him the cash in exchange for a fake document that indicated her tax debt had been wiped out.

Brilliant.

I think I’ll attempt to bribe an IRS agent… IN WRITING!

Footnotes:

¹ Per Dean Hunt:

[A firebox trap] is a fire alarm that was designed in 1938. The purpose of this alarm was to prevent pranksters setting off the alarm and wasting the fire brigades time.  It works by trapping your arm into the box and you cannot escape until the police or fire brigade let you out.

This means that if there is an actual fire then the person is going to burn to death because of this invention. GENIUS!

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