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Marion County Sheriff via AP
Krystle Marie Reyes, 25, is accused of tax evasion, theft, computer crime and methamphetamine possession.
PORTLAND, Ore. -- An Oregon woman was charged Wednesday with duping the state into giving her a $2.1 million tax refund that allowed her to go on a short-lived spending spree — an alleged scam that has prompted embarrassed state revenue officials to review how they process tax returns.
Krystle Reyes, 25, of Salem, filed an electronic return in January via Turbo Tax, reporting erroneous earnings of $3 million, authorities said. Her request for a $2.1 million refund was initially red-flagged by an automated system, but a subsequent manual review by Oregon revenue department workers OK'd the refund. Turbo Tax then loaded the full amount onto a debit card for Reyes.
Authorities say she spent $150,000 of the funds before reporting the card lost or stolen, at which point the ruse was discovered. The state has recovered roughly $1.9 million of the funds.
Reyes was arrested June 6, and now faces eight felony charges. In addition to tax evasion and theft charges, she is accused of computer crime and methamphetamine possession. She is scheduled to be arraigned on July 5.
Attempts by The Associated Press to reach Reyes, who is no longer in custody, have been unsuccessful and it was not clear if she has an attorney. Officials also have not released the allegedly falsified tax return because of confidentiality laws pertaining to tax matters.
Andrew Campbell, a senior assistant attorney general who filed the charges, has not responded to AP's requests for interviews.
A list of what Reyes purchased during the spending spree has not been provided, but police said video surveillance showed her swiping the debit card at various stores in the Salem area. Despite being a millionaire for a few months, Reyes paid $2,000 cash to buy a 1999 Dodge Caravan, the vehicle she had been seen driving in the month before her arrest.
'Human error'
The Revenue Department, which processes $7 billion in tax returns, is understaffed because of budget cuts and has an old computer system. But agency spokesman Derrick Gasperini said neither of those issues was to blame for what he described as a "human error."
The agency plans to release more details about its apparent blunder in the coming days, and how it plans to prevent a recurrence. There has been no evidence linking Reyes to anyone inside the agency, but officials want to make sure its internal controls limit the possibility of collusion.
"Catching this one, we all are concerned — here at the agency as well as the public — about 'is this part of a larger scheme, and who's involved in that larger scheme and does it involve anyone inside our walls?" Gasperini said.
State Sen. Ginny Burdick, D-Portland, the chairwoman of the Senate Revenue and Finance Committee, has said she plans to hold a hearing on the matter this summer.
"I'm not on a witch hunt, but I'm just very, very concerned that something this flagrant could have gotten through the process," she said. "We need to understand why it happened and what is going to be done differently."
State Rep. Vicki Berger, R-Salem, co-chair of the House Revenue Committee, told the Oregonian when Reyes was arrested that the revenue department "had some explaining to do."
"Is this is an anomaly? If so, let's make sure it never happens again," she said. "Or do we have a systematic problem in the way the Department of Revenue treats this and other transactions?"
Following the arrest, the agency reexamined the returns of 108 people who received a refund of at least $50,000 during the current processing season, and no new instances of fraud were uncovered.
According to the Oregonian, the state reported $559 million in delinquent taxes in 2010, primarily from unpaid personal and corporate income taxes.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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"who is no longer in custody"
What is the chance she is illegal and now in Mexico?
Zero. Because she is a woman, she will receive no or a lesser sentence. A man that committed tax fraud would be put away for 20 years.
She has a cool two million and she buys a $2000 1999 Dodge Caravan. Does anyone else find this hilarious? You can't take the trash out of the trailer I guess.
I guess that is how they even the score for women getting less pay.
They would have caught a fraudulent W2 for that much money. She probably filed a Schedule C as a failed solar energy company owner.
Under staffed? old computers? LOL omg it's a republican dream. cut cut cut till; we all die. no worries, thell import people from somewhere lol keep voting republican and lets see what they cut next
lmao@u
One would think she would've spent a bit of that money on a makeover. But then again, maybe she did - can anyone imagine what she looked like before?
QUESTION: Which incident is stupider:
a. This Mrs Zimmerman look-a-like for initially filing this false return.
b. Loosing her debit card, alerting the agency to her misdeed of illicit gains.
c. A cash-strapped state approving this bogus refund.
What a hottie eh? Babalicious!
this is disgusting!!!
let me who is only getting pennies back mess up and I would be interrogated for life. and here she is filing and getting back millions and who the f cares. hahhah got to laugh because if this happened to her , how many others slipped through?
AND THIS MY FRIENDS IS WHY THE COUNTRY IS GOING DOWN FAST.
too many people wanting to give away your hard earned money because they didn't have to work for it.
Smart enough to scam the system, but not smart enough to take a trip to a country without extradition. Damn, our educational system needs help.
Eye brows anyone?
"Zero. Because she is a woman, she will receive no or a lesser sentence. A man that committed tax fraud would be put away for 20 years."
So Vincent, how do you explain all the MEN in the banking industry who bilked America for 7 trillion and have yet to even get a warrant issued?
You bigoted people disgust me and you are all an embarrassment to the ideals of this nation. I think it's YOU who should leave my country
Yea, dissapointed and ashamed this is pretty shallow of me, but....she obviously didn't spend any of the millions on beauty products, eh?
oh boo hooo stop crying you men. women get less sentences because they typically do less crimes ergo have no previous record when in court. men go to court and they've got a laundry list of prior crimes so you get tougher sentences. I'm speaking in general not particularly this woman..stop your crying, grow up, be good little boys and life might treat you better
they though she was 1%er and deserve more money to create jobs.
She need to pay for what she did HERE..no Mexico, they will let her go out after a month if she will pay them some dollars..trust me.....
Wow, computer review (flagged), manual review (OK), over $2 million on a debit card - Priceless! Can't help but be entertained how the left coast geniuses run the government.
Exactly, so now the state has to spend money to bring her back!!
My guess is that they are going to find she had inside help. I can not think of any other way that the return was manually reviewed and still allowed to go through. A trained chimp would have been able to catch a fraud this blatant.
Hey, Its meeee, hahahaha, shallow or not, thats funny. She is sexy and she knows it! Anyway, yeah she could have at least got some make up and fake eye brows to spice up her look a bit. Ugh, poor girl.
She should have had a "get out of town" plan. Props to her for pulling one over on the gov. They steal from us every day! How many times do they tax our income? They take a huge chunk before you even cash your check. After that they take little bits here and there whenever you spend. Taxes=stealing. I don't feel bad for them at all. Remember the $200 hammer and the $400 toilet seats? Don't forget the lies and the waste people! They will step on you and your rights with no remorse anytime they want for their gain. Believe it
What is the most dominant political tendency in the state of Oregon?
Answer: Democrat, by far. It last voted for the Republican presidential candidate when Reagan was in office.
Oregonian: Democrats outnumber Republicans statewide by nearly 240,000 voters.
Now will you bend over and let someoone kick your ignorant arze? Or you just gonna' keep being an uninformed troll?
Dear disapointed and ashamed.
It's not nice to make fun of Shellie Zimmermans twin sister. They were born a couple years apart. I know. But, it just ain't right.
A family that lies together sticks together. She's young, beautiful and smart.
Anyways I gotz to give her credit for looking after her own. All she is doing is trying to raise money for George's defense. Her plan was to donate it over the internet. ( Just like YOU did ) and write it off as a tax deduction. Only thing she did was make an error and filed the deduction before the money got into the account. She now has a lawer and all has been fixed. She doesn't have to pay anything back and the tax people already have sent another check to her for $1 million dollars do to their error.
Finnally some good news for a change. Call me. ;P
Thanks for that, Sheila. Your reasoning sounds so very similar to why women get paid less that I don't feel nearly as bad for the girls not making as much pay as men. You know, like you have a monthly problem that effects your attitude at work, you get pregnant and demand time off to care for your new born, you demand day care, we all have to deal with your post-mortem issues, and did I mention we don't like putting up with your continuous PMS and general bitching and moaning? Buy some tampons, get someone to watch the baby or marry a man who doesn't mind footing all of your bills, save your complaining and life might treat you better. Now say goodnight, Gracy.
She should've called Jenny Craig.......................and Cher's plastic surgeon.
Confused. She filed a tax return, so it's unlikely that she's an illegal. Even if she had a stolen SS# she wouldn't be likely to file a return on that # as another return would most likely be filed by the actual holder of that #. If the IRS/State were questioning the return, they would most likely go by the initial name they have on file attached to that #.
Paying cash for an older car makes perfect sense if you were planning on going on the run. Less paperwork.
I watched a program the other day about Humans eventually evolving into 2 separate species. One more evolved intelligent. The other less intelligent/violent.
Actions like this support that theory. She was just smart enough to do the scam, but not smart enough to cover her tracks and get the hell out before the scam was discovered.
Fran NJ,
I don't understand your comment at all. I don't even know how to respond to it. You addressed me personally but you said nothing to me. I think you might want to put down the prescription drugs for a couple of days and get your wits about you. Come down from the clouds, in the world that you exist in inside your own head because we don't get it. You're comment sounds a little crazy.
I would do her if she still had the money. First thing would have been convert it to cash and get out of the country. Next step, dump her her ugly, drug addicted *ss.
Janine: "She filed a tax return, so it's unlikely that she's an illegal. Even if she had a stolen SS# she wouldn't be likely to file a return on that # as another return would most likely be filed by the actual holder of that #."
A month or so back, the major news outlets had a story about illegals filing false returns. Stories like the above; claiming 10 or so children to get the tax credits/returns, etc. It is costing the US citizens billions of dollars every year.
Millions of illegals commit tax fraud in our country every year. And it isn't to pay money into the system.
dogma-
post-mortem issues???
why would her tax return be private and unavailable for viewing if it is a false return?
This is even more astounding than the IRS scam by illegals in Indiana getting $25,000 refunds for their nieces and nephews they claim, all of who actually live in Mexico. The latter was admitted by the guy, who needed a translator, who lived in the trailer house that at least 5 different filers used as an address. That's that earned income credit.
About this, if she "earned" $3 million, she did not pay in $2.1 million in taxes. In the highest bracket she would have only paid $1,050,000 with no deductions. I just figured that out on my little hand held calculator. Something is way fishy in that tax department - like she has a partner in crime there. Also, don't you have to submit your forms from your employer?
Also, I'm using Turbo Tax from now on. It got Geithert, our treasury guy or what ever his title is, out of paying taxes, and it got this girl a $2.1 million refund on nothing. This must be the way to go.
So, that's how the rich folks do it... they use TURBO-TAX...!
@David- You say because she is a woman she won't get what a man would get as far as time and fines? It is a known fact that most of the paper fraud that is committed today is mostly done by women. BUT, you can rest assure that most women that do this has a man behind her either making her do it or influencing her to do it!
I am having a hard time figuring it out myself as to why she is not still in custody. Especially since she hasn't even been arraigned as of yet! They do release people on P R, personal recognizes. That is for people mainly who have never committed a crime. Since this is such a big money crime she should not have been released. Even if she had been put on house arrest I think it would have taken longer and she would have still been in custody!
Hey Sheila. Turn off Ellen take the pie pan off your head and feed your 100 cats who live with you in your single wide trailer. Step out side get some fresh air and think about why as a middle aged woman you are alone and livinig off of public assistance. Ps: you might consider taking a shower once in a while and losing a few pounds.
Human garbage steals from the taxpayers.
Do we even know if Krystle Reyes is in this country legally.
There are a lot more like her all over the country.
I say make who ever issue the chek over the computer red flagg pay the money back. Just throw this one in jail for filing a false return.
I can see the pubbies are out in force today. I think it is interesting that they condemn this person based on her being hispanic but defend Zimmerman and his actions by saying he is partially hispanic,,,,,,,,,,,,it is confusing when trying to understand their pecking order
Sheila stated: "oh boo hooo stop crying you men. women get less sentences because they typically do less crimes ergo have no previous record when in court."
Sheila, that has to be the most illiterate thinking, and comment anyone has ever posted. How about this reasoning, no matter which did this crime, a man OR a woman, it is still that, the same crime, and they should get the same punishment for committing the crime. And just because it was a woman who committed this crime, it doesn't make her any damn different than a man who would have committed it, she is still a thief. There is your equality.
I would like to know how the Zimmerman's got in this conversation in the first place?????
If she had not reported the card stolen Oregon probably would never have caught her.
When the auto flagged the return the person doing the hand sort should have checked previous returns by her. If the hand check had been done throughly and correctly this would not have happened. This is the person that should go from their job.
"Human garbage steals from the taxpayers"
Oh please blow it out your butt! Like it's your money. Wake up dude. It's not "your" tax dollars. For one, they take that money from you. You don't give it. So, it is not "yours" at all, is it. Two, if they fixed all of the fraudulence and scamming and stealing by whoever you want to fill in the blanks, do you think they would take less taxes? Do you honestly believe that the gvnmt would say "woah, we have way too many tax dollars here, we should just give it back to you". You are dreaming my friend. What she did was steal from the gvmnt, and I say good for her. At least someone else is doing the taking for a change.
She should have changed her last name to Rothschild or Rockefeller because it would have looked like business as usual for their names to be associated with ripping off the system and no one would dare look into it further.
I'm disapointed in disapointed. She ripped off every taxpayer.
Hey Dogma, Lets see you pop out a kid. Wish your mother didn't! A mother should want time to raise her children... WHO ELSE SHOULD DO IT? Half the time, the daddies don't stick around because many men (NOT ALL) are too weak or think they are too important to raise their own children. So, until you become a MOM... F OFF. Sounds to me like you are a bit jealous, I will take less pay for that.
Leroy2112,
You are a moron and you obviously didn't read my whole comment. Keep believing the dream of the common taxpayer. Ok, it's your money bro, go buy something with it. Make a decision about where it goes to. Oh yeah, you can't. So, point made.
Watch, no one will be fired over this.
In the private sector entire departments would be gutted. Government workers will probably get promoted.
Who needs the "Dream Act" when you got a 2 million debit card?
It's nice to see that, despite the recession, illegal immigrants are so richly rewarded...
Viva La Raza!
dissapointed and ashamed stated: "Props to her for pulling one over on the gov. They steal from us every day!"
And we wonder why our children show little or no morals. dissapointed, how about jailing those in government that you believe are stealing from us, instead of committing a theft trying to get it back like she did. The problem is, she didn't pay it into the government in the first place. I don't believe I want you teaching my grandchildren your lack of morals. Stop the government from stealing, and then a person doesn't have to sink to the level of being a low life like they are.
If ya'll keep hatin', U gonna get bann-ed & I can sing da peanut butter jelly song.
Ya'll can't say that U weren't warn-ed. ;-)
Careful now...let us not cast negative aspersions on any particular group....
I'm sure that Escalade was purchased fair and square - using a fat tax refund from filing a fraudulent tax return!
Viva La Raza!
Only in America,
Stop the gvnmt from stealing? Thats your come back? Here's a thought, you can't. Gvnmt has always been crooked. For the majority of history worldwide in fact. Where do you think the saying "I can trust you as much as I can trust a politician" came from? It is fact. It is common knowledge that the gvnmt is a giant currupted lying machine. Why do you think politicians spend millions for a job that pays thousands? Why are all politicians millionaires? It's about power, wealth, and legacy. Maybe, if you are lucky, one out of every hundred politicians, maybe, probably less, is honest and trustworthy and wants to truly serve the american people.
Don't bring your kids into this discussion. No one cares about your kids except for you. I don't teach kids. I chose not to bring children into this world. I couldn't look them in the face and try to tell them how the world really works. It is a huge farce and a lie. Thats what was done to me and every other one of us. We were lied to for protection from how awful, brutal, dishonest, dangerous, and completely unfair life is. And, it's only getting worse because people like you live in a dreamworld instead of reality. Way to be a proactive intelligent comprehensive individual. Thanks for your meaningless input and have a great day!
Hmmm... Forrest Gump said it best, "Stupid is as stupid does." In this case, that is a direct comment about the Oregon Department of Revenue, and the state workers who authorized the refund.
This lady looks like such a sweetheart. Just the kind of gal you would want to take home and meet your mother...
The absence of eyebrows could mean that she follows Egyptian mystical beliefs. In ancient Egypt, if the family cat died, everyone in the family would shave their eyebrows in mourning for their cat.
BWWAAAHHHH!!!!!
Thanks WhistleBerries. That's the funniest thing I've read in weeks.................
............such a sweetheart; Maybe her cat died.
leroy, I think even disappointed is disapointed in disapointed.
If you truly wanted to get away with it; once the $2.1M hit the debit card, transfer funds to an off-shore account and buy a one-way ticket for Switzerland, leaving within the hour! Duh! Let's just hang around and hope no one notices!! Whaatt?!!
Is that pronounced Ray-ezz like Gonzalez.
Can you say "Obama Supporter".
Don't protect your borders and look what you get!
Make an example out of her, 50 years in max security, no chance for parole!
Maybe the GOP need to stand up and take notice -- this is what happens when you severely downsize a department, especially the IRS and it's offices. If anything, we need to "beef" up these offices to catch more of these types of tax frauds. The money saved in finding the fraud would MORE than offset the cost of getting updated computers, etc. This is just ridiculous! The citizens of the U.S. should be ashamed that this has been allowed to happen! There was even a report on this very subject from one of the Government offices that stated that it would be more beneficial to hire more IRS agents than to cut back on this particular department. As long as we don't have enough people in the field to catch the fraud.....the more money we'll end up losing. And, people, that money is yours and mine!!
@ Dogma Bites: I understand that Sheila's statement was ridiculous and completely unfounded in any truth or facts, however, I didn't really appreciate your comment towards women either. As a working mother (I am married, we don't have welfare or WICK or anything like that), there is a reason our jobs give us some time away from work after you have a baby. Do you know what happens to a woman after she gives birth. If you are one of the lucky ones that has live birth, it may not be as demanding on a woman who gets cut open to deliver the baby, but your body needs time to heal. You need time to bond with your child, and there is at least one thing that mommies are able to give to babies that "care providers" and daddies just can't give. My husband got the same amount of time off work as I did when our baby was born for maternity leave. Neither of us "demanded" it, as it's usually routine with most jobs nowadays. You have a baby, you get time off. That's just like if you have a surgery, you get time off from work. Post mortem issues are nothing to laugh at either. Hormones are going crazy in your body and it takes time for your body to get back to normal. I hope that if you have a wife who ever has a child, you will be kinder to her than you were to the rest of us women who obviously have brought this all on ourselves. I make more money than my husband does, my job offers much better benefits than his does as well, so the comment about marrying a man who doesn't mind footing your bills, that was uncalled for too.
Industrial Strength: You obviously don't know that President Obama has had MORE illegal aliens deported since he was elected than any of the previous presidents!! Before you start blaming people....you need to read a paper once in a while or do some research!! It amazes me that some people just believe ANYTHING they hear on Faux News!
How does a person lose a debit/pre-paid card with $2.1 million dollars on it? I would have drilled a small hole in the card and placed it on a chain to wear around my neck! It would never leave my site. She would still be out there and spending real money had she not called to report the card lost or stolen. It really makes me wonder if she was actually stupid enough to report the card lost (when it was not) in a bid to have two cards with over $2 million. Granted, she would have to be extremely stupid to think it would work out that way but who loses a card like that and then reports it? I think her stupidity has no bounds.
Didi,
Taxdollars are not yours or mine dear. It's theirs. Like I said before, they take it. We don't give it. So, it is not yours.
Take a good, long look at this woman. This is where America is headed.
And the state worker who made the $2.1 million error in this review will keep their job due to get this the Public Union.
This is what happens when stupid people get money, they lose it within a short period of time. I see this with lottery winners and 'tax return fraudsters' and bank robbers all the time.
If I ever get $2.1 million, erroneous or not, you won't find me. I guarantee it.
OK... I have to put this out there, because for everyone of you who "assume" that this woman was a Mexican because her name is Reyes, you all are as dumb as she is for doing what she did... and here's why... ILLEGALS DO NOT FILE TAX RETURNS! Haven't you been listening at all, they PAY taxes but will not try to file a return because they are afraid they may be deported. Get a Fuking clue people and stop thinking with the racist side of your brain.
"Stop the gvnmt from stealing?"
Yeah, what a concept.
"Thats your come back?"
It's better than theft in any form.
"Here's a thought, you can't."
Sure, if you don't try.
"Gvnmt has always been crooked."
Really? And who elects them into office? Who falls for the words they speak to get elected into office?
"For the majority of history worldwide in fact. Where do you think the saying "I can trust you as much as I can trust a politician" came from? It is fact. It is common knowledge that the gvnmt is a giant currupted lying machine. Why do you think politicians spend millions for a job that pays thousands? Why are all politicians millionaires? It's about power, wealth, and legacy. Maybe, if you are lucky, one out of every hundred politicians, maybe, probably less, is honest and trustworthy and wants to truly serve the american people."
I've known this for years, it's nothing new to me.
"Don't bring your kids into this discussion."
I said: "our children", not my children. And by the way, I will discuss what ever I want, when ever I want, with or without your ok to do so.
"No one cares about your kids except for you."
How would you know if others care or not about my kids? Do you speak for all people, and do you speak for them on a mass scale? There are many people who care about my kids, just as I care about theirs. Your ego has no bounds, does it? Or does it do your thinking and speaking for you?
"I don't teach kids."
No? When you post in a public forum, kids aren't able to read what you post and take it to heart? Go ahead and post more about how two wrongs make a right.
"I chose not to bring children into this world."
I wouldn't either, if they had to learn your concept of theft.
"I couldn't look them in the face and try to tell them how the world really works."
And your idea of theft is different from that world, in what way?
"It is a huge farce and a lie."
A farce is thinking that two wrongs make a right.
"Thats what was done to me and every other one of us."
They shaft you, you shaft them back, and the right is? And we learned what from it? That stealing is ok, as long as we do it, right?
"We were lied to for protection from how awful, brutal, dishonest, dangerous, and completely unfair life is."
Yeah, life is so bad, that we have to turn to doing what they do. Which makes us better than they are, in what way?
"And, it's only getting worse because people like you live in a dreamworld instead of reality."
And your reality says that stealing is ok, as long as we do it, right? I wouldn't be telling others, that they live in a dream world, without judging my own first, if I were you.
"Way to be a proactive intelligent comprehensive individual."
And that statement is coming from someone who thinks stealing is ok, as long as it is in our favor.
"Thanks for your meaningless input and have a great day!"
And thank you for your post that has no intelligent thought in it or behind it.
Here is the the thing about about this story. If she had not reported the debit card lost/stolen, she would most likely got the full $2.1 Million. I bet she is kicking herself.
Has this happened before???
She is stupid..only a stupid person will do that....
Cant fix stupid.
I suppose you could say honesty does is not her best quality however stupidity is.
The article states that the agency reexamined 108 returns with refunds of $50,000 or more. Who the he11 gets those kinds of refunds??? Certainly not me. The definition of refund is amount overpaid. Anything else is just welfare! IMHO.
Dear uncle V
FYI They now outsource the services through India. India outsources them again after they get their cut to Afganistan. Afganistan takes it's cut and deligates the work to the Taliban. The Taliban figures out how much they can get out of it and they know they cannot keep it all otherwise they would be commiting a major U.S. crime. So they throw all the returns up in the air and which ever random one they catch that's who gets the refund. That's the way the system works. It's all on the up and up. All is fair in Love and War.
It just happened to be Sheelie Zimmermans beautiful young sister and everyone gets pissed off.
And by the way. She is wearing makeup. Pefume too. How sweet it is.
Hey Unk. don't be such a stranger. Call me. :P
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The problem isn't a lack of funding. It is a lack of thinking.
She's a meth head! What ya expect? And in regards to illegals filing tax returns, putting down 20 kids and getting away with the bennies is crap! Is there a way to stop them from doing that? That is just gotta stop!! They already rip off our system enough! Then have the nerve to beg for more? And call us racist if we don't like it? We live in a strange country!
She probably reported it stolen, because it WAS stolen by one of her own. She got furious and threatened to report it, then did. I can't imagine even the stupidist of the stupid would report that card stolen.
did you see her picture? She is the stupidest of stupid.
Damn... there are a ton of dumb ass people posting racial comments, so I have to put this out there, because for everyone of you who "assume" that this woman was a Mexican because her name is Reyes, you all are as dumb as she is for doing what she did... and here's why... ILLEGALS DO NOT FILE SATE OR FEDERAL TAX RETURNS! Haven't you been listening at all, they PAY taxes but will not try to file a return because they are afraid they may be deported. Get a clue people and stop thinking with the racist side of your brain. And further more, even though she purposely stole, there is not ONE of you who would have given the money back if your state had mad the mistake and given it to you... now go ahead and lie and say that you would, because you know you would have waited for them to ask for it back.
Yes they do try to file Fed taxes. You have no idea how may of them file fraudulent returns to recieve child tax credits on SE income. AND the child tax credit also applies to all of their nieces and nephew they claim.
My thoughts exactly! She was home free, then she blew it!!
D'oh!
Geez, just when you think you've heard it all!
I say make this thieving LOSER pick up trash and do however many jobs it takes until she has paid it all off! And then fire the Oregon revenue department workers who OK'd the refund, because they obviously totally dropped the ball.
Nice thought, but obviously this little piggy wouldn't work in a pie factory, biting holes in donuts. Probably hasn't worked a day in her life.
If wetbacks are too lazy to work, why are you so paranoid about them taking your job?
a broad abroad, people make mistakes I agree with the trash pick-up for the thief but for all we know she had very convincing paperwork to fool employees of the revenue service.
this burn um all at the stake attitude is out of control these days.
Nope, jakester, this isn't a "burn-um-all-at-the-stake" attitude that you're reading into my post. All I am saying is there should be painful accountability for bad actions, and that goes for the thief as well as the employees of the revenue service. This isn't just a small mistake, this is a HUGE screw-up! Why should Joe Taxpayer pick up the bill for something that goes far, far beyond an oversight at the revenue department????
Congratulations for being the first to have the limited mental capacity necessary to assume that because her last name is Reyes, she must be an illegal alien. since we are straying off topic, allow me to relate a personal experience:
I work in the construction industry. Yesterday, a new (American) truck driver arrived on one of my jobs because the previous (Mexican) truck driver quit because he thought the work was too hard. So I have witnessed with my own eyes an American taking a job that a Mexican won't do. And, since we have strayed into stereotypes, I also note (without prejudice) that the new truck driver was black.
You can always count on the laziness of public employees.
@denver bill,
I didn't assume she was an illegal alien. I was replying to proudwestvirginian who makes no bones about hating Mexicans. PVW made the assumption.
So what are you saying? That a black person isn't as lazy as a Mexican?
a broad abroad "bad actions" and making an honest mistake are two differant things.
I bet you don't make mistakes do you . . . . . . .BURN UM ALL
jakester, I'm beginning to think that either (a) you work for the Oregan revenue department or (b) you have made a WHOPPER of a "mistake" like this at your place of employment and hence are prone to defend others making what you term as "honest mistakes". If you want to pay for the crass lack of oversight made by public employees, go ahead, be my guest. But I don't care to!
Nice try, James. Here is PWV's comment in its entirety:
Please point out to me any reference to race, nationality or ethnicity other than what you have conjured up in your own mind.
"It's not the things you don't know that make you ignorant. It's the things you do know that just ain't so." ---Mark Twain
This typecasting of workers by color or nationality only shows the ignorance of people that use it. I've seen lazy people of all types and I've seen very hard workers of all types. It's the individual themselves...not what race or nationality they happen to be.
Now this tax refund is stupid. How in the world would you get a $2.1 million refund on earnings of $3 million when she obviously never paid any money to the state on that income? Didn't they even look to see if she paid taxes on the income either through the state or federal? I know this was an electronically files return but good grief it should have been checked out with received data before giving up the money. Something doesn't pass the smell test here.
@denver bill 2
Read PWV comments #10 and #14. It is obvious to anyone with even a limited education that PWV thinks she is an illegal. Anyway I was talking to PWV. I can only debate one redneck at a time. I don't need another conservative jumping on my back. Why don't you go back to watching Faux News.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc. Fail.
Argumentum ad hominem. Fail.
So you know Latin. Pretty good for a high school dropout.
I believe she will get 20 years or more, This thieving demoncrat adminastration does not want the compatition
Your trolling skills are not strong, grasshopper.
It is the internet. Everyone knows every language. Google translate.
Children!!!!!
Let's not fight.
soooo, you two have much of a life at all? It's like watching a sissy slap fight....hilarious
the reason hes listing those terms is because hes listing the fallacies in his statements. Its called proper argument. He just shot down your reasoning behind your arguments, citing known fallacy. You learn this in basic college english. Whos the high school dropout now ?
@HomePeace
Hillbilly denver bill was trying to use Latin to support his claims that I had limited mental capacity. His post hoc ergo propter hoc argument is in fact fallacious because I gave 2 examples to support my argument and he came back with an argument that had nothing to do with anything. So go to the back of the class with the rest of the rednecks, Homey!
Deanna Blossom& ABroad Abroad: It has NOTHING to do with laziness....it has EVERYTHING to do with understaffed! Our politicians are cutting back on all departments despite the fact that some of them would bring in more money than they would lose if they had staff to go after the fraud; i.e., IRS, Medicare, etc. Quit blaming the poor staff person who is probably underpaid, overworked, and doing the job of 3 people!! I'd be interested to see how you'd fare if you had the pressure on you to do a job that actually should be done by several people!!!
The woman is no longer in custody. Probably won't be long before she is no longer in the country. And that might be what officials hope in order to avoid an embarrassing trial.
a broad abroad, sorry but, a. I live thousands of miles away and b. no whoppers by my hand but like I said NOBODY is mistake free.
Didi-376564 Knows exactly what is going on! Its a shame that you (a broad abroad) and others are blind to the facts and lack there of. someone commited a crime and it wasn't the revenue worker. That being said
There simply isn't enough info in the artical to pass such a drastic judgement on anyone (well at least for a reasonable person).
I think they should arrest the people who sent her the wire transfer.....but I guess stupidity still isn't illegal in this country....
Obviously not. Consider the following:
Pres. GW Bush
Fox News
The Romney Bandwagon
Gun toting in bars and courthouses
The Teabagger "Movement"
If this guy worked for corporate America, he'd probably get a raise, considering so many of the dull-witted idiots holding CEO and CFO positions.
bout time to quit blaming old george for your problems isnt it?....All i have to go on is how things effect me personally, and since "the great one" has become president, I have taken a 10, 000 dollar per year pay cut, and had my hours cut by 25 percent...So you guys have to forgive me because I think the democrats suck.
JK, if you're so smart, why aren't you a CEO?
Deanna, maybe JK has some morals?
DB 17- You are so right...there are no consequences for mistakes like this...just losing your job does not teach them anything...they will collect unemployment. We were to receive a little over $2000 dollars on our return...my husband and I are both out of work now and that money would have helped. Neither of us have collected unemployment EVER our whole lives (we are in our 50's)...and the IRS cut our return in half due to a numeric error...which THEY made and now we have to fight to try and get the money we paid the government back...I just don't understand???
JK, you can come out from under you're rock now, Obama has spent more money in 3 1/2 than Bush did in eight.
Really dude. Y'all need to get over already. It's been close to 4 years and y'all are still blaming everyone else for all your problems. Shut up and move on!
JK from PA
Please, if you are going to make such ludicrous posts take the PA off your handle. People will stereotype all of us Pennsylvanians as being like you.
Haha...so DC479, you're saying that it is because there is a Dem president that you've had your hours and pay cut? Seriously? Even though Repubs control congress? Really? It's all Obama's fault that your company is slow or failing? Wow...just wow.
I didn't see anything in JK's post about blaming problems at all. He just said those things in his list were stupid. Nothing about blame, learn reading and comprehension please.
This is just one person getting caught . The problem is even bigger...
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/millions-of-illegal-immigrants-are-using-a-massive-scam-to-get-much-bigger-tax-refunds-than-you-are
Yep,just the tip of a much bigger problem. But as usual,nothing will really be done about it. That women got released and is probably over the fence already. The article that you linked to about the illegals stealing tax refunds is a disturbing but little hyped story in the mainstream media. Its not,as Rep.Vicki Berger said,an "anomaly". It is a much larger wide spread problem. Tax fraud,welfare and food stamp fraud,identity theft,violent drug gangs, phony drivers licences,etc. Everybody knows it's going on. I don't have to watch it on the news to see this. All I have to do is look out my window. But SShhhh... We don't want to tarnish hard working illegal....er,I mean undocumented potential voters. Fact is,illegal is illegal unless your an illegal.
That was just one article that I found ,but there was also one video that I couldn't find of a news network investigating how wide spread this problem is and he was interviewing and illegal worker living here with just one child but he put down 12 children that were living in Mexico and received a $20,000 tax refund on his tax return. The IRS know about these frauds but can't do anything about it unless congress tells them to do something to go after these cheats. Now if I were to do something like this I would end up losing my house and thrown in jail with a big fine to boot. I think I'll change my name to Hosea.
Many of our tax dollars are going straight to Mexico.
Thank you Obama.
I would like for everybody on this post to do a geniological trace of where thier great great granparents came from so that you woould find out that you are all imigrants. The only people that lived on this continent before it was invaded by your ancestors were what you people now call "Native Americans". You stole thier land and made them live on reservations. And if that wasn't bad enough your ancestors started to bring in African slaves to do the work that white men and women were to lazy to do. Years later you stole the southwestern sates from the Mexicans and then hired Brazeros to pick them up at the border to do the work that white men and women didn't want to do and payed them jack sh^&t for wages. After they worked their arzes off to build the highways and farm the lands you decided you didn't need them anymore and now their illegal imigrants and lazy black people? And you're all pissed off because they want revenge? In the words of Mr. Steven Tyler "if you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin, then mr. you're a better man than I." It's the year 2012 people. We have much bigger problems in the world than this. We all need to come together to try to fix them and quit worring about which race is superior.
Just what I was thinking: for the one person caught in this outrageous tax fraud, how many are out there not caught? I'm betting it's a pretty scary number and one must wonder how many of those not caught are CEO's, other so-called executives and politicians.
Proudofmyheritage, history is a never ending story of one people pushing out another. It goes back to caveman days. Don't lay a guilt trip on white Americans. We ain't buying it.
t melora- you are absolutely right. and these people also receive more gov't benefits. live in free housing, get food assistance, daycare assistance, utility assistance and NOW....lower college tuition. I feel so ripped off because as a legitimate contributing member of society I am paying for this, but yet, I get no benefit for being a citizen. My taxes keep getting raised, my cost of living keeps getting raised, but my income keeps going down. The undocumented receive more help and assistance than our own Veterans. Then I hear about this. I am SOOOOO sick of people getting something for nothing. They will not stop and we, America, look like a bunch af freaking retards because we are letting our country go to sheet. We are laughed at and get no respect, so does behaviour like this really surprise anyone when the leaders of our country engage in this kind of corruption, embezzling, cheating, lying and stealing also? People aren't migrating here for a better life, just an easier one because it's so easy to cheat here.
Say it isn't so! She "looks" innocent to me. Meth? Seriously? Meth-heads looks like shrink wrapped skeletons, there is no way she is a meth-head... unless she is also moonlights as the Hamburgerler. Is that a Big Mac in her neck or another chin?
Looks like her neck just threw up. That's a picture of America's tax dollars at work.
Yeah, I'm not buying the Meth Head part of this story. She might have been in possession of Meth in order to sell it, but she's no user. One look at her skin and that whole theory goes out the window as does any defense of "mental impairment" and/or "under the influence" as a defense. Her "rehabilitation" costs won't be among the costs we pay to . . ahem. . .rehabilitate her in one of our finest privately owned and operated prisons.
She has more chins than the Hong Kong phone book!
I want to rub hot oil all over her naked body.
Re; AirThief.....better set aside a few days out of your schedule.
As Stewie once said...."It's a real mess down there, i can't do the job in the time i quoted".
Or in a Simpsons vein;
Homer: Woo-Hoo! Look at that blubber fly!
Dr. Hibbert: Nurse, cancel my 1 o'clock...
sounds to me she needs to run for goverment. curry couty sherrifs office same way. get a lot of money spend a little and say its gone... Then steal it from road dept to keep running and now the roads suck do not drive on highway 101 from brookings to bandon. Brings into question about how goverment and people in charge actually do what they are sepose to do or are they...
Just how do the illegals get refunds?????To get a refund you would need a ss number. doesnt our budget comittie have a list of actual soc sec number. that they can draw from no wonder why this state is so screwed up a bunch of incompotent burriacrats are in charge, and they have no clue CLUE.
You don't need a SS number, just a tax ID number. These are the same numbers businesses use. Anyone can apply for a tax ID number for any reason. Since they are not screened for who is applying for it, legal or illegal, it is a system begging to be scammed.
That's correct all you need is a tax ID number which the government provides you so that you can pay your fair share of taxes well guess what, It also has allowed 2.1 million illegal aliens to bilk the Americans out of 4.2 billion dollars of hard earned, and paid tax dollars. Now I ask you is that fair or what. One illegal alien even when on record (under condition of anonymity) that they see nothing wrong with what he did and that he is thankful because if the government did not help him his family both here and in Mexico nieces, and nephews no one else would. WELL DAMN IT the government doesn't help my family out. WAKE UP AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND SMELL THE ROSES, you are being cheated on and not even kissed. The kicker is that the IRS even know this is happening and is being told not to pursue this, WHAT A CROCK. Yet if you or I or any USA citizen tried this we would be hung up by our short hairs. So my advice is don't make a fifty (50) cent error on you taxes they will nail you or I but let the real cheaters go scott free. Isn't our government wonderful.
I think it would be funny to have every United States citizen claim 10 children and watch the IRS self destruct, and have a melt down.
would love that . lo very good . you should be runnin for president . xoxo
How could she earn 3 million and get back 2.1 million? What happened to Alternative minimum Tax? Lord knows they sock it to me every year :( Maybe I need a new accountant!
Noooo. The world is so screwed up, because it has IDIOTS like you all over the place. Do you know how to read??? Do you even form whole sentences when you talk? Have you ever heard of spell check? Maybe you should just concentrate on not getting someone else killed with your incredible stupidity instead of worrying about someone you, for some inexplicable (that means had to explain) reason, think is an immigrant, or as you call them 'illegals' . Now get back to playing that Banjo, Lloyd.
Hmm, Now wonder what her native country is? Does she have a green card? Is she back across the border yet? She doesn't look as though she has been starving. Wonder who's social security number she stole, with the permission of the government to remain ignorant. Funny how native born Americans of English descent are criticized when they receive a little help, but those of foreign persuasion act as though they are entitled to it, even though most of them don't have to pay taxes. America, Land of Milk and Honey. Where else can you get tax refunds after never even having to pay taxes?
Where else can you get tax refunds after never even having to pay taxes?...... look who's sitting beside you now..... Republicans do this all the time with the help of self approved tax loop holes.
YOU PEOPLE who sit there blaming one party for making all this mess in OUR government is nothing but fools.
look around you fool.
it happens to be both parties in congress screwing up right under our noses and people sit back on their computer chairs putting down one party while their party is just as guilty.
when are we, as tax payers paying their salaries going to wake the f up and take back what is ours?
the taxes you pay out is being spent by people of both parties like it was owed to them.
when you go to vote this next election.
VOTE SOMEONE NEW INTO OFFICE THAT HAS NEVER BEEN IN BEFORE .SOMEONE FROM YOUR PARTY.
Thank you! Term limits should be the law. Hell,,,,just get elected,sit on your ass for 4 years and then retire with a nice salary for the rest of your life. Id love to work 4 years and quit and have it made. Those that wanna stay more than 4 years are probally in it for the "money under the table part of politics". I say vote every one of them out Democrat or Republican. Wake up America, it's time for a real change and we as voters have the power to do just that! It's time we unite as people and quit the trash talking between two parties! Thank you and have a nice day!
Proudwestvirginian. 65% of American taxes go to foreign lands. Why do you think this country is in such bad economical shape? If they would keep the money here we wouldn't have so many people on welfare or out of jobs. The American gvmt. suppliments many other countries so that they can have a little control over them. You know it's the try to rule the world a little at at time game instead of focussing on ruling this country well. The people in all countries being helped monitarily by the US don't pay taxes either. But if you think about it, most states have state tax applied to every single item you purchase in a store. Therfore we all pay taxes in some way shape or form.
She is probably an illegal. She sure is an illegal now.
Automationman: Unfortunately, our elected officials do NOT get lifetime benefits despite what you've been told by Faux News. Much like most of us, they get a pension if they are in office 20 years or more, and just like most of us, they pay into that pension as well as have the opportunity to have a 401K plan. I don't know WHY so many of you seem to believe everything you're told without researching it! It's just plumb scary what people will believe!
oh and by the way we in oregon are gonna pay for the layer and court cost and prison expeneses
California is Oregon's Mexico.
Who knew it was so easy!
Separated at birth: Krystie Reyes and the Matt Lucas "Tweedledum" from Alice in Wonderland.
How did she escape imprisonment anyway? Did she pay her bond with the money she stole? And they wonder why real Americans get upset. We get upset because we're the ones slopping these ingrateful hogs. They come here and steal our jobs, then our social security numbers and then laugh in our faces. And then have the audacity to blame us for all the ills of their country. Truth is, their country thrives from stealing from our country. Hard working people? I doubt it. If stealing and drug dealing are considered hard work, maybe.
Let's all hope she pre-paid, in cash, the $150K to a black-market, underground plastic surgeon...
what about the rest of the illeagle s, who claim dependents who do not exist or live with them. billions are sent out thru a loop hole. close the boarders first , then make anyone who hires them pay enormous fines , and also make them pay taxes like U.S citizens, but NO REFUNDS of any kind sort of like the cost for them working in the U.S.A. if they don't like it stay in your own country
All that money and she buys a 13 year-old car... mucho dumbo.
Lets not forget the 6x6 velvet painting of Elvis laying next to a tiger.
I'd probably own that painting if I were an Elvis fan (for the retro, cheesy/tackiness of it). Hmm, maybe the 6x6 velvet Dogs Playing Poker painting? It'd go great against my fuzzy gold wallpaper.
that's what I was laughing about.....Krystle "beaten with the fugly stick" Reyes buys a '99 Dodge Caravan?!
She's as stupid as she looks.
Ya do the crime,ya do the time. Lock this cow's a** up for a long time.
You'd think she would have dropped some dough (pardon the pun), on liposuction and other cosmetic surgeries. That would've been a tax refund well spent....
Who's to say she didn't have inside help? hmmm
That could be her alibi. Claiming she was a retard and not smart enough to know what she was doing.... dammit! Did I just give her an out?
Nah, she'll go for the Peter Griffin defense for welfare fraud - the faster she spent the money, the sooner they would catch their mistake.
She is a retard.
Rule No.1 never screw with the I.R.S. You will not win.You have to be nuts to think you would get away with this.
This was a state refund though, not federal.
You obviously didn't read the article...she DID get away with it...her only demise was that she LOST the debit card with all the funds on it...and then reported the card lost....otherwise she would be living it easy.
They would have caught it. It might not happen overnight but they would have caught on.
22 deleted, John Dalton-3455991 with a weird derail with a racial slur in it:
You're suspended for a week for violating #5 of the Code of Honor - second suspension in a week.
why are you deleting? you may not like it but an opinion is an opinion dude....who cares? stop needing midol
Old computer systems ??? Are you serious ??? I'll have to remember that one. After all this she had drugs too ??? No way.
The computer red-flagged the return, but some idiot federal IRS worker over-rode and approved it.
Tony -- it wasn't the IRS. It was a state refund.
Reread the artical Tony as this was a STATE of OREGON tax return.
Come on, is the state that dumb - who puts a 2.1 million refund on a debit card? OMG. They almost deserve to be taken.
What the hell? Did she request a debit card?!? I can't imagine that is protocall for that large of a refund. Somebody had to be working with her on the inside, I can't even imagine Oregon state employees being that stupid, or there not being a system of checks and balances to keep this kind of thing from happening.
Tony, read the story. It was not the IRS....it was the state.
D'oh!!!!!!!!!
she must be a member of congress
LOL
Oh man that's a face that you see at a NASCAR event .
after 300 crashs in the same car with no medical attention, inpersonatting a crash dummy!
nahhhh...thats a face you see at a taco eating contest, and looks like she's ate a lot o' tacos!
I don't know what taco eating contest you have been to? maybe the ones in a NASCAR event, because that is a face all too familiar there.
never been to a nascar event so i wouldn't know.i guess from what you're saying is that mexicans like nascar.so what's your point? my mexican neighbor has a taco eating contest amongst his dozens of kids and grandkids every summer. its a hoot to watch and they're tasty homemade!
She has loser written all over her.
LN, you're such a good little progressive. Yes you are. Yes you are.
No, no it's not at all. You obviously are clueless. That's a face you'd see stuffed in a van full of illegals. Which BTW, I'd like to see her papers and where she was born. The illegals are a big problem with these bogus refunds.
you should be glad as a taxpayer to pay for her incaration to lock these scum up and remove from socitity.as far as her defense,that in the constution and every americans right
What a piss poor blob of humanity! I agree with the comment that she probably hasn't worked much in her useless life - the cablre of person who forever takes and never gives anything - isn't the word parasite for such? What a pity that workhouses and such are no longer available wheresuch persons could be sentenced to work off such debts!
Great post! I agree with you that we should have never got rid of the workhouses. This pig obviously didn't spend any money exercising.
"I wash myself with a rag on a stick"
An Obama supporter no doubt wanting all with no effort!
LOL, no tax fraud is something the rethugs actually have cornered the market on. Of course every year they commit fewer and fewer frauds, by just legalizing what should be criminal conspiracy against the US Treasury!