Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumThe gunman, Pikerson Mentor, 31, was sentenced last month to life plus 42 years.
Florida hit by "tsunami" of tax identity fraud
By David Adams | Reuters
MIAMI (Reuters) - Bruce Parton was only a few weeks from retirement after 30 years as a mail carrier in sunny Florida.
He never lived to fulfill his retirement plan of moving back to a quiet life in the Catskill mountains of New York, not far from where he grew up on Long Island.
Instead, he was gunned down on his daily mail route in December 2010 by members of an identity theft ring who stole his master key as part of a scheme to claim fraudulent tax refunds.
Using stolen names and Social Security numbers, criminals are filing phony electronic tax forms to claim refunds, exploiting a slow-moving federal bureaucracy to collect the money before victims, or the Internal Revenue Service, discover the fraud.
Parton was a victim of what officials say has ballooned into a massive, and dangerous, illegal industry that could cost the nation $21 billion over the next five years, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.
more at link:
http://news.yahoo.com/florida-hit-tsunami-tax-identity-fraud-122604383--finance.html
dkf
(37,305 posts)Or are you thinking the postman should have had a gun?
I don't know where you are coming from.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)dkf
(37,305 posts)Personally I think anything effective would be a complete violation of a number of rights...
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)the semi corporate USPS. There used to be a postal regulation requiring it. Of course, that was when people mailed cash to pay bills and ordered stuff COD.
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/one-eyed%20fat%20man/35
http://www.warrelics.eu/forum/firearms-ordnance/us-post-office-revolver-manual-5310/
holdencaufield
(2,927 posts)... why 42 years? Why not 40 or 45? Do judges do that just to make the math hard and screw with the convicted?
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)any lawyers in the house?
ileus
(15,396 posts)Stay safe my friends...