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Lady Uses Turbo Tax To Concoct a 2.1 Million Dollar Refund, And Oregon Pays Her
The 25-year-old from Salem, Oregon, had used Turbo Tax to file her income tax return for 2011.
She claimed earnings of $3million but used the tax calculator programme to claim a refund of $2.1million, Oregon Live reported.
Due to the size of the refund, her electronic claims was examined by several people within the Oregon Revenue Department.
Incredibly, they approved the payout and Reyes was sent a visa card by the tax preparation computer programme containing a balance of $2.1million.
Prosecutors said she went on a spending spree and spent more than $150,000.
She later reported the card missing, prompting an investigation which uncovered the massive fraud which is believed to be the biggest in the history of the state of Oregon.
persecutor
June 11th, 2012
Think they’ll take a pre-paid Visa for her bail?
scribble
June 11th, 2012
And yet Democrats think she can’t figure out where/how to get a photo ID.
scribble
June 11th, 2012
This is like calling the cops because you lost the keys to the car you just stole.
scr_north
June 11th, 2012
Wow, this woman has started on her qualifications to become the next Secretary of the Treasury. I mean, didn’t Geitner get a big tax refund the same way but when caught admitted he didn’t understand the software when he filed his taxes and made a mistake. Let’s see, he’s too stupid to file his income tax using software that’s idiot-proof but smart enough to run the largest economy in the world. Maybe this lady can apprentice under Geitner.
I Luv Bacon
June 11th, 2012
Turbo Timmy filing for unemployment in 3..2..
Mrs. Compton
June 11th, 2012
Spending spree? She had the card for three months! I can spend 150 K in my sleep! What a lightweight!
Buzz D.
June 11th, 2012
Wow, I didn’t know Uncle Fester had a daughter!
I Luv Bacon
June 11th, 2012
Beat me to the reply button Scr-
Good golly. that mug should be labeled NSFW
fubar
June 11th, 2012
2.1 million dollar refund; proof that the rich aren’t paying their fair share
AvgDude
June 11th, 2012
What a complete fool. If you steal that kind of money, then you better convert that Visa card to cold, hard cash ASAP and then get out of town, live in the boondocks, and live off the grid… for years. To run around spending as if she got away with it shows her to be a total moron.
Moxie Man
June 11th, 2012
She paid $2000 for a 1999 Dodge Caravan and $800 for tires?
Heck, she could have had a Fisker.
Sapper Chris
June 11th, 2012
So they had no problem authorizing the refund after SEVERAL people reviewed her claim, but getting a replacement card, for 2.1MILLION DOLLARS WARRANTED ENOUGH TO TAKE YET ANOTHER LOOK AT THIS TAX CASE TO FIND THE FRAUD?!?!!?!?!?!? WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY SMOKING IN OREGON?
willie t
June 11th, 2012
blame it all on her white, european ancestry. fkn wasps, anyway
Buddy
June 11th, 2012
A poster child for the Dream Act. She hits the fraudsters’ lottery and then LOSES HER PAYMENT CARD!
Maybe jail will keep her from voting for Obozo again. I said maybe.
Moe Tom
June 11th, 2012
How the hell did this happen?
Never mind.
The bigger question is how the phuck did the One get elected POTUS?
The country is coming apart at the seams.
norman einstein
June 11th, 2012
Another story that you just couldn’t make up.
Nobody would believe it.
I like scribble’s analogy: “This is like calling the cops because you lost the keys to the car you just stole.”
From the Daily Mail article:
“The revenue department processes about $7billion in tax returns each year on computer systems DESIGNED IN THE 1980′S.
In January, the state’s chief operating officer, Michael Jordan, pulled the plug on a $100million computer upgrade that the department said would pay for itself by finding tax cheats.”
Sounds about right…”penny wise, pound foolish”.
Buffalobob
June 11th, 2012
Oregon public employees must be so accustomed to paying out money that it never occurred to them that this could be fraud. First thing, fire all involved, oh wait, they’re union government workers, they can’t be fired. At least publish their pictures so that the taxpayers can see who they are.
Commissar M
June 11th, 2012
Hmmmm… Rich AND sexy! What more could you want?
Yeah, I just threw up in mouth a little for thinking that.
Troy
June 11th, 2012
Well, wasn’t she promised some money from “Obama’s stash”?
TooMuchTime
June 11th, 2012
As far as I’m concerned, good for her. I wish she had never been caught. If you want to stop refund fraud, do away with refunds. By that I mean do away with the 16th amendment and the socialist income tax. Then pass the FairTax; no refunds so no refund fraud.
And I’m with @Mrs. Compton on this one. 150 large out of 2 mil is all she could spend before she got caught? What a piker. Hell I’d be at a Mecum Auto Auction and spend that on one car.
Corona
June 11th, 2012
That’s a human being? And she didn’t spend all that $ on a new face & body? Looks like she’s so ronery. IYKWIMAITYD.
Blind Snowman
June 11th, 2012
Another white hispanic crime……
iris354
June 11th, 2012
Just doing her bit to stimulate the economy.
jus sayin yo
June 11th, 2012
jus tryin to keep up widda juarez’, holmes- all da muchachos done got there chit for free, yo
free school – free hospital – free ID cards and transportation to vote fo mo free chit, yo
Mary Jane Anklestraps
June 11th, 2012
All that money and she never thought to buy eyebrows?
BILL
June 11th, 2012
she may have been careless with her card but she was smart enough to fool the irs auditors.
makes you think just who is auditing the tax cheats and how smart are they?
no wonder geitner got away with tax fraud and still became our treasury secretary.
PalmettoLonghorn
June 11th, 2012
Well, if those Oregon tax examiners are any indication, we really need more public sector employees like them…
Uncharitable
June 11th, 2012
Maybe the auditors got a cut
Nunya
June 11th, 2012
Dude! That’s no Lady…
m00pa
June 11th, 2012
She only spent $150K because she couldn’t keep herself from the dollar menu at Mac-taco-king …
joe
June 11th, 2012
@Norman and Mary Jane: Don’t be talking too much and letting proverbial cat out of bag… I think I’m kin to this woman. She may have some of Obama’s stash left over and we could use cash. If she was a tazer, she would be set to “stunning.” /sarc.
The Doktor
June 11th, 2012
@AvgDude – re: “To run around spending as if she got away with it shows her to be a total moron.”
DUDE – LOOK at her PICTURE!!
Mexicans – Doing the fraud Americans are too stupid to think up themselves.
A
June 13th, 2012
Am I dumb or something, I have no clue what the woman actually did wrong. Did she not earn the 3 million, if so that would have been easy to check “when they were all examining it” Story just doesn’t make sense. How could 3rd party debit card provider have any clue what was on the woman’s return? WTF
Major Mal function
June 15th, 2012
She charged her bail on the tax refund card.
Major Mal function
June 15th, 2012
Whoops. Should have read comment #1.
Major Mal function
June 15th, 2012
She was too stupid to self deport herself w/ a cool $2.1 million. Now that Obama has stopped deportations, she can’t even get a free bus ticket south.