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...Only later did Koutchesfahani realize it was a farewell present. "They were polite people who shared Sam's problems and told him that things would be all right--that God would work things out," says Koutchesfahani's lawyer Milt Silverman. Koutchesfahani had a checkered past, having pleaded guilty to fraud and tax evasion. "There was nothing goofy about them. There was nothing wacky about a spaceship following a comet. They were Christians. I guess they kept their true beliefs hidden from the world." Well, not entirely. Silverman says one of them mentioned they had come to Earth "as angels...
...every 10,000 nonfilers ever get caught. Not filing is known as noncompliance, small beer to the IRS. "We eat $200 billion a year in unpaid taxes," says Representative Bill Archer, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees the IRS. "All of that is fraud." The IRS's computer problems, he says, "open the door to more and more fraud...
...federal and state officials to access such information. In addition, the new legislation would hold hospitals and HMOs accountable if they certify such a doctor. While it is hard to argue against a bill that could help save some of the billions of dollars lost to Medicaid and Medicare fraud (federal estimates range as high as $20 billion), the real test of the Clinton Administration?s determination will not be new laws requiring action, but action itself...
...troubles are increasingly frustrating and relevant -- just try logging on to the IRS website (www.irs.ustreas.gov) as tax time approaches. What's more, the agency is coming under increasing criticism from the General Accounting Office for a 'tax gap' of some $150 billion annually that is due mainly to taxpayer fraud. To help clean up the mess at the IRS, the Treasury Department wants to make permanent an IRS oversight board to help supervise the computer upgrade. The plan would allow for more outside consultants to help with the computer overhaul. The plan also would let the IRS contract with private...
...inviolable commandment: "Touch our opponent's private property, their signs, etc., and you will be fired." In early February my opponent's spouse was fined $640 for destroying my signs. Oh, how justice can be healing! On Feb. 26, a congressional committee voted to hold hearings on voter fraud in my still-contested election. That makes five ongoing election-fraud investigations in California's 46th District. I sign myself as the "once and future Congressman"... ROBERT K. DORNAN Garden Grove, California