An office manager/bookkeeper at a medical office was sentenced to four years in prison after it was discovered she had been writing checks to herself and adjusting invoices and expenses to cover up the theft. She opened a business bank account in the owner’s name without his knowledge and deposited checks made out to the Oregon Department of Revenue into her own personal account. When the IRS came calling, the office manager created a fictitious IRS revenue agent named “Linda Gibson” – complete with a phone number and voicemail – and “assisted” the owner with the collections action using this alias. (www.justice.gov/usao-or/pr/eastern-oregon-medical-practice-employee-pleads-guilty-tax-crimes-bank-fraud)
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