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In April the IRS admitted to a Washington Post reporter that it had paid out $30 million in fraudulent refunds over the past two years, allowing black taxpayers (including 12 IRS employees) to claim the nonexistent slavery reparations credit and collect about $40,000. The agency did catch $2.4 billion in slavery claims before checks were sent out.
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Weird Science
Dean Glick, 41, convicted two months ago in Scottsdale, Arizona, killed his mother because she wouldn’t pay the $1,850 fee he’d promised his date from an escort service….In January, 56-year-old Joseph Rich was arrested in Broward County, Florida, for allegedly killing his roommate in an argument over whether to turn the lights off….And last December in Pittsburgh, 50-year-old Kenneth Hairston was charged with killing his wife and son to prevent them from seeing him tried for rape.
In Lewiston, Maine, a 32-year-old man fled into the woods on foot after a police traffic stop but was captured after being incapacitated by a skunk’s spray….And the city council of Sioux City, Iowa, made another official request to the Federal Aviation Administration to change its airport designation, which is SUX.
