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Syracuse, New York: Stephen Mockler, 53, of Waverly, New York, Andrew Panessa, 40, of Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania, and Sabrina Scott, 52, of Granbury, Texas, have pleaded guilty to charges related to their roles in a scheme to obtain confidential tax information from the IRS.
The three admitted that Scott, while an employee of a private investigation firm in Texas, provided both Mockler and Panessa with personal ID information about her firm’s investigative targets and requested that Mockler and Panessa use that information to obtain confidential tax information.
Mockler, who received requests for tax information from both Scott and Panessa, called the IRS and used the information to impersonate the taxpayer, answer the security questions and learn non-public information about the taxpayer. Mockler then sent that information back to Panessa or Scott, who provided the information to the private investig
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