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Article: The story of one IRS whistle-blower. (former United States Internal Revenue Service employee Stan Welli)(Cover Story)
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- November 3, 1997
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Here is the personal account of an IRS internal inspector who encountered corruption in the national tax service and then refused to let it be swept under the rug. These people play dirty.
I am a former IRS internal inspector. In 1983 I blew the whistle on corruption by higher-ups in the Internal Revenue Service -- and suffered the retaliation of an arrogant and self-protecting bureaucracy. I observed misuse of power, abuse of authority, fraud, lies, cover-ups, payoffs, hush money, spying on whistle-blowers, punitive tax reviews, whitewashed grievance complaints trumped-up criminal charges, retaliatory investigations, happy-face congressional testimony designed to ...