Alabama IRS Employee Pleads Guilty to Stealing Taxpayers Identities
An Alabama woman has pleaded guilty to identity theft and fraud in a tax scheme.
Nakeisha Hall worked for the Internal Revenue Service. Federal prosecutors say Hall’s job was to help taxpayers who had experienced problems with identity theft. Instead, Hall stole their identities and created fraudulent tax returns. She then collected refunds totaling more than a million dollars.
According to Hall’s plea, she obtained personal information including Social Security numbers through unauthorized access to IRS computers while working at the agency from 2008 to 2011.
A federal grand jury indicted Hall and three others in December. She faces a lengthy prison term and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and restitution.
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