Man Used Library Typewriters To Fake Tax Documents
-- Library Journal, 3/9/2007
Most of the keyboard-related brushes with the law at libraries involve computers. But a Columbia, SC, man, Jeffery P. Stivender, has pleaded guilty in federal court to using Richland County Public Library typewriters create fake W-2 forms that he used to get more than $50,000 in federal income tax refunds. According to the Associated Press, Stivender filled out forms for homeless people he knew, falsely suggesting they worked at local businesses and thus should receive tax refunds. He then went to tax preparer H. & R. Block to get advances on those refunds. Then the Internal Revenue Service figured it out.
