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NewsfrontInternal FraudWashington, D.C.--An audit of the IRS found that employees had stolen at least $5.3 million over a 30-month period. In a case that accounted for $4.6 million of the total, an employee and his cohorts duplicated checks, then altered and cashed the copies. In other instances, a tax examiner issued ten refund checks, totaling $269,000, to herself under her maiden name, and an employee altered a taxpayer's check to make it payable to "I. R. Smith." The General Accoun...