harriette walters
Update: The District of Calamity govt's tax-refund scam
The mastermind, "Mother Harriette" Walters, 51, pleaded guilty and will serve at least 15 yrs in prison for ripping at least $48m from Washington, D.C., taxpayers. Based on her cooperation since her arrest, prosecutors now believe (a) the scam was going on before Walters took it over in 1989; (b) she took it to new levels, eventually, to a hgh of $8.6m in 2004, (c) outside auditors, inside supervisors, and four mayors never even came close to discovering the scam, (d) even though in several aspects it was amateurish, and (e) if it wasn't for that clerk in a Sun Trust branch located inside a supermarket, who questioned a ridiculously large check and wouldn't let go of the suspicion, Walters'd still be working her magic. Washington Post
The mastermind, "Mother Harriette" Walters, 51, pleaded guilty and will serve at least 15 yrs in prison for ripping at least $48m from Washington, D.C., taxpayers. Based on her cooperation since her arrest, prosecutors now believe (a) the scam was going on before Walters took it over in 1989; (b) she took it to new levels, eventually, to a hgh of $8.6m in 2004, (c) outside auditors, inside supervisors, and four mayors never even came close to discovering the scam, (d) even though in several aspects it was amateurish, and (e) if it wasn't for that clerk in a Sun Trust branch located inside a supermarket, who questioned a ridiculously large check and wouldn't let go of the suspicion, Walters'd still be working her magic. Washington Post
Comments
(f) Several other officials and government workers should have been arrested as accomplices but were quick enough with hush money to be skipped over by the investigating authorities.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 09/18/08 at 10:19 AM
I hope the Sun Trust employee is appropriately rewarded.
Posted by kingmonkey in Athens, Ontario on 09/18/08 at 10:56 AM
I gotta get a job in D.C......
Posted by Ryan in Philly on 09/18/08 at 12:09 PM
Collectible Barbie dolls?
Posted by KW in Dallas, TX on 09/18/08 at 12:28 PM
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