Gun-Toting Wing of IRS Wants to ‘Put the Fear of God in People’: Ex-Agent

Gun-Toting Wing of IRS Wants to ‘Put the Fear of God in People’: Ex-Agent
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) headquarters building in Washington, on Mar. 8, 2018. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
Tom Ozimek
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As the Internal Revenue Service seeks to bolster the ranks of its weapon-carrying Criminal Investigation unit, a former special agent described the inner workings of the division and said its key function is “to put the fear of God in people” and intimidate Americans into tax compliance.

Former IRS Special Agent Robert Nordlander told Accounting Today, in a wide-ranging interview published on Feb. 20, that while most Americans have a sense of what IRS tax audits look like, the work of the IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) unit is shrouded in some mystery.
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
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Tom Ozimek is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times. He has a broad background in journalism, deposit insurance, marketing and communications, and adult education.
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