Newport couple faces taxes on income never earned

[RealDeal]

Newport couple faces taxes on income never earned (http://www.citizentribune.c om/news/view_sections.asp?id category=9&idarticle=7876)


For Lora and Jamey Costner, a $7,854 federal income tax bill is the painful indigestion that followed two unsatisfying servings of identity theft cooked up by two former Koch Foods employees, records indicate.

The criminal cases involving the Newport married couple and the two illegal immigrants, who IRS records indicate worked for Koch Foods, have been resolved in the court system.

The bitter aftertaste that remains is the unpalatable possibility of having their wages garnished to pay tax bills on income they never earned at the Morristown chicken-processing plant.

"The overall burden of it all is crushing us, please help," the Costners wrote in an appeal to U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. "We have done all we know to do."


I don't know if this article is current, as I just received it in an email, and there is no date on the article.

However!! Can you imagine??

[Amawalk John]

Sounds to me like the management over at the Morristown chicken-processing plant has some 'splaining to do about how they assigned tax id numbers of American citizens to its ******* labor force. Let the IRS go an pluck the right chickens for a change ..... and double the fines to take care of the pain and suffering Lora and Jamey have undergone.

Oh, and here's the link to the story (http://www.citizentribune.c om/news/view_sections.asp?id category=9&idarticle=7876).

[candles]

Wednesday afternoon, Paul Chapman, a field representative for U.S. Rep. David Davis, R-Tenn., said he would intervene on the Costner’s behalf. I am glad she has a R-Tenn. helping this poor lady out.

Valdez avoided the identity-theft charge because a judge ruled that it was not a crime to use someone’s identity to obtain employment.What!!!! This must have been one of those liberal judges. When I went for I job, I had to sign a statement that all the information I written on the form were the truth.


Mrs. Costner says when she discovered her identity-theft trail appeared to lead to Koch Foods, she contacted the Koch Foods human resources manager.
She alleges that Steffin was uncooperative and indicated he could not verify whether or not the Lora Hale that was working at Koch Foods had assumed her identity.
I do believe Koch Food has some explaining to do to the IRS.

[schillerbjr]

Government "RUN AMOK"!!

[RealDeal]

AJ, that's the same link/ same article... but there is no date on that article... new news? old news? (It's the first time I have seen it.)

[Amawalk John]

RD -- All I did was google salient information from the clip you provided. As I recall, there was more than one published story. I linked the first one.

[Ohwellii]

Wouldn't it be nice if this one bit one of the big guys? But the moral to the story is.. check your SS number or plan on a lawyer on down the road.

[Tiberius]

Sue the chicken processing plant!

[Paulmarkar]

Tiberuis you took the words right off my keyboard. I'd find the crookedest lawyer I could find (John Edwards comes to mind) and sue Koch's Foods for 10 Million $$$. What you want to bet they'll come up with answers real quick.

[righton]

This is not only unbelievable but damn scary. It seems that everyone is CYA and doesn't want to take any responsibility.

With the attitude of the chicken-pluckers, they should be the first to get their a**es in the fan, then the so-called judge who claimed identity theft was basically OK (as long as it wasn't him), then hit the IRS for harrassment.

These illegals should be next in line - KICKED OUT

L&L