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Saturday, April 10, 2010
Greetings fellow Bizarros:
If you're a regular reader of Bizarre News you know that I
get on political rants every now and then. I try to avoid
them for obvious reasons, but when I read a story like this,
especially when we are in an economic 'downturn' like we are
(to borrow a term from the media), it is impossible not to
express outrage!
A week before the April 15th tax filing deadline, authorities
announced "the largest coordinated takedown of tax preparers
in history" calling it "Operation Brass Tax."
Undercover IRS agents posed as clients and recorded some of
the defendants in The Bronx and Manhattan promising to
concoct fake business losses and inflate other deductions,
prosecutors said.
Among the more outrageous scams include; dead people were
claiming tax refunds, the children of strangers listed as
dependents and identity theft of people living in Puerto
Rico.
"In a criminal twist on the old proverb about death and
taxes, some of the defendants charged today allegedly even
filed for tax refunds using the identities of dead people,"
said Preet Bharara, Manhattan U.S. Attorney.
This story comes right on the tail of the announcement
that 47 percent of tax filers in the United States either
don't pay any taxes or are getting more money back from
the government than they pay!
With a nearly $14 trillion debt and budget deficits growing
every quarter, the one agency that is supposed to be managing
the nation's money is apparently as corrupt as any of the
others!
It kind of makes you not want to pay your taxes, doesn't it?
Bizarrely,
Lewis
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---------- Cheerleaders punished for urine prank ----------
FORT WORTH, Texas - Officials with a Texas school district
said a group of high school cheerleaders was disciplined
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rators said at least two girls at Fort Worth's Saginaw
High School received in-school suspensions and an
unspecified number of their fellow cheerleaders received
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be barred from cheerleading events for the remainder of
the school year but will be eligible to rejoin the team
during the next school year. The father of one of the
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---------- Teen opened beer in deputy's cruiser ----------
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said a 19-year-old woman who asked for a ride home was
arrested after opening a can of malt liquor in the back
of the patrol car. The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office
said Tasha Lee Cantrell, 19, asked Deputy Mitchell Landis
for a ride to her Fort Walton Beach home after her friend
was pulled over and arrested for driving under the
influence, TheSmokingGun.com reported. The police report
said Landis heard Cantrell "open a can of some sort" while
in the back of his cruiser. "As I looked at my in-car
video, I observed Cantrell drinking out of an unknown
can," Landis wrote. Landis wrote he stopped the car and
Cantrell attempted to hide the can between her legs. He
identified the can as containing Steel Reserve, a malt
liquor with high alcohol content. Cantrell was arrested
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