IRS Criminal Investigation

I also found that basically my accounting job was not very exciting.

And I wanted to find some more excitement and applied to both the FBI and the IRS Criminal Investigation Division.

And for quite a long time, probably over two years, I really thought that I'd end up being an FBI agent because the application process went very swiftly.

And to my knowledge, I passed everything that they threw at me.

But then there was a hiring freeze instituted because of budgetary concerns.

And I never ended up getting hired, or at least they never had the authority to hire me.

And then about August of 1993, I got a telephone call from the San Francisco office of the IRS Criminal Investigation Division asking me if I'd be interested in a position at the San Francisco office as a special agent.

And, you know, I pretty much had my heart set on being an FBI agent for years, basically.

Things are all kind of coming together.

I resigned from the IRS Criminal Investigation Division.

And the reason I resigned is obvious.

I received no response whatsoever from the agency.

plays a factor all right that's it for our deep dives let's get into our quick hits today but now is your chance to subscribe if someone on your team can benefit from this please make sure to subscribe share the show wherever you possibly can comment and let us know below what stories matter the most to you all right more breaches all right mercado bitcoin has been hit brazil's mercado bitcoin which says it has about four and a half million customers in the country suspended deposits and withdrawals after a cyber attack monday morning blockchain security firm says more than 46 million dollars left the platform late sunday night a figure of the company hasn't yet confirmed mercado bitcoin says customers weren't affected or harmed but researchers point to an on-chain evidence that some customer wallets were actually drained tether uh froze about four and a half million of the money and other platforms froze roughly two million more but they still walked away with 46 million so that's kind of small potatoes uh that's cost of the breach as far as i'm concerned for those threat actors all right Going to Binance where the FBI formally pins Binance on North Korea following up on yesterday's coverage.

The FBI working with the Secret Service and the IRS CI has formally attributed the Binance heist to North Korea's trader trader and published 608 Ethereum addresses, 19 Bitcoin addresses and one Solana address tied to the stolen funds.

Binance now says the attack went beyond Binance.

one laptop and that it has replaced about 95 of the stolen amount with company funds if you run crypto treasury or payments load those addresses into your screening uh today they should be there if they're not already All right, we'll continue with more here.

According to prosecutors, between 2021 and 2024, the defendants allegedly prepared and submitted more than 9,000 fraudulent federal income tax returns utilizing falsified COVID-19 credits, fuel tax credits, Schedule C statements, and education credits to claim over $177 million in improper refunds resulting in the IRS dispersing approximately $81 million.

The prosecution, which was led by the DOJ's Fraud Division, the IRS Criminal Investigation and the FBI, also seeks asset forfeiture including money judgments and 12 properties linked to the alleged scheme.

to Austin, where Arun Margo has been sentenced in federal court to 41 months in prison for bank fraud and money laundering involving federal pandemic relief programs.

According to court documents and the attorney's office for the Western District of Texas, Margo fraudulently secured nearly $1 million in Paycheck Protection Programme and economic injury disaster loans across several business entities between April and November 2021, subsequently diverting the funds into personal accounts for real estate purchase.