[FedCom] "Tax Police" Newspaper Interview

[Jeff Kenyon]

Hi Ken, here in Detroit they have a large IRS office, and I had a large
list of VHF and UHF frequencies for the IRS and I've never heard anything
on them.  When I asked someone at a training program I was at for a while
they didn't seem to know what they we used for.





On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Ken wrote:

> The "Springfield (MA) Sunday Republican", 4/9/06 edition, Business Section
> (D)
> has an interview with Special Agent in Charge Internal Revenue Service
> Criminal Investgation Field Office in Boston..  He was interviewed recently
> when he made a visit to the Springfield Office.
>
> Basically there's 10 agents in the Springfield Office.  120 New England
> wide.
>
> The agents focus on tax fraud/evasion, but also get involved in money
> laundering & political corruption cases.  Most have backgrounds in
> accounting and/or bank finance versus law enforcement.
>
> Radio Communications wise, nothing was mentioned.   I think that the nature
> of the the investigations would probably result in use of cellphones rather
> than radio equipment.    I think it's been over 3 years since I've monitored
> any IRS CID activity, which at that time as in the VHF highband area.
>
> Further information on IRS CID can be found at:
> http://www.irs.gov/compliance/enforcement/article/0,,id=98205,00.html
>
> Historically the Webster report (1999) emphasized the CID getting back to
> its' basics.
> http://www.irs.gov/compliance/enforcement/article/0,,id=130626,00.html
>
> Ken
> Springfield MA Monitoring Area
>
>
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