 
Treasury Inspector
General Starts Investigation Mike McKinney of the Treasury's Inspector General office in Washington DC, recently contacted Victoria and Richard Osborn of TPI, a Colorado Springs forensic accounting firm, to inform them that materials produced by TPI were sent to Treasury field investigators looking into alleged illegal data tampering by IRS personnel. The Osborns have produced documentation and given sworn testimony that the IRS routinely violates citizens' due process rights by willfully and intentionally manipulating taxpayers' Individual Master Files (IMF). This unlawful data tampering is for the purposes of: fabricating time-barred tax assessments; fraudulently certifying official records sent to federal courts to support illegal assessments; "short paying" interest legally owed to taxpayers; seizing Social Security benefits from taxpayers in direct violation of US law and creating fraudulent penalty and interest payments against taxpayers. This evidence was made public by the Osborns at February's We The People Foundation's Truth-in-Taxation Hearing and the April 8th WTP press conference from the National Press Club in Washington. The internet broadcast of the press conference was viewed by over 20,000 people. The lead Treasury IG official overseeing the investigation is:
Key to the investigation is a video tape produced by TPI that details and fully explains the fraud. Osborn and his wife Victoria, a forensic accountant, have personally delivered or mailed the tape to every member of the Senate IRS oversight sub-committee, IRS Commissioner Rossotti, Attorney General John Ashcroft and the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. At the Senate Finance committee hearings in 1997 and 1998 it was publicly promised that if any proof of IRS illegal or wrongful behavior could be found the committee would act. The Osborns and TPI have documented the fraud and delivered that evidence. Read the sworn affidavit of Victoria Osborn. It shows willful and intentional computer fraud being committed by IRS agents in the Collection and Examination divisions. Documentation establishes that as far back as 1974, IRS agents have knowingly input fraudulent information on taxpayers master computer files for the purpose of fabricating illegal and fraudulent tax assessments and then concealing that illegal activity. Before the 1998, IRS Reform and Restructing Act, details of the computer fraud were not available because the public had no access to the full computer records nor the "code books" and computer operations manuals necessary to decipher the encrypted data. Details of IRS's unlawful practices can be seen at TPI's website, www.tpirsrelief.com. The recent "redesign" of the official IRS public website has resulted in the removal or the "reorganization" of most of the critical information that TPI used to discover the fraud. The illegal acts found to date by TPI committed against taxpayers by the IRS include, but are not limited to:
Readers of this article are urged to contact the appropriate media and the Treasury Inspector General's Office to ensure that this investigation proceeds properly and that their conclusions and research are fully available to the public. Copies of the VHS video tape are $20 and can be obtained from:
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