Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100719:14:47:00
>> reporter: tax forms and addresses with social security numbers and birth dates and cheat sheets for filling out returns. that was december of 2006. what was stumbled upon was a lucrative income tax fraud scheme run by inmates at the monroe county jail near key west. before they were busted, they filed for more than $1 million in tax refunds involving half of the jail population. >> they would go to other inmates and suggest to an inmate, i can get you 45 a in a tax return. >> reporter: in some cases with help from friends and family, they would fill out a 1040 ez form and fill out another f...
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