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IRS Crime Unit Marks 100 Years Of Following The Money And Tackling Crime
One hundred years ago, six United States Post Office Inspectors were transferred to the Bureau of Internal Revenue (now Internal Revenue Service) to become the first special agents in charge of a new crime fighting unit. This month, a host of tax professionals, including IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig, IRS-CI Chief Don Fort, and former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, met to honor the occasion. Before 1919, the Bureau of Internal Revenue did not have a criminal division. With the transfer of those six agents, that changed. Charged with pursuing tax crimes, one of those first agents, Elmer L. Irey, would lead ... (full story)