(Sound of Music Clip Goes here)
So some hard drives crashed. It could
happen to anyone, right? I mean, if the data I need to defend myself
in an IRS audit just happens to be on that drive vanishes, then I'm
OK?
Well, no. Find all your hard copies
and then we'll talk. (All government agencies have a policy of
considering e-mails to be ephemeral instantuations of REAL documents,
therefore ALL e-mails are to be printed out and retained). OOPSIE!
That memo must have been on theat same drive...
This leads us to an odd situation.
We've got the obvious Mens Rea (guilty mind) executing a
well-coordinated ass-covering, but a reasonably plausible one.
Now here's an idea. Abuse of Fiduciary
and Failure to Perform Due Diligence. After all, she was/is employed
as arbiter of imposts on the whole of the body politic, on behalf of
the selfsame body politic, entrusted with carrying out that duty, and
turning it to personal benefit. Neglect of routine mandated
recordskeeping looks like a Due Diligence matter to me.
Now I realize that these matter are
civil court matters, but the remedy is usually the appointment of an
independent-to-hostile auditor appointed by the court and not the
DOJ, which is what we're looking for anyway.
Run it up the flagpole and see who
salutes.
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