Tax Fraud Blotter: Rocky roads
For rent; lien on me; really creative; and other highlights of recent tax cases. 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 i...