So here you and the family are on a hot August day in Arizona and the IRS (so you think) just comes walking up to your door. You’re being audited – he might have said. Not the kind of thing you ever want to hear. But, Ben Carranza – fake agent for the IRS – presents himself. In your desperation to just make him go away, you give him money. O.K., I know bribery is illegal, but you’re desperate so what the heck.
Turns out – Ben Carranza – was Marco A. Ibarra, age 52, of Phoenix. This week he was indicted by a federal grand jury for Impersonation of an Internal Revenue Service Agent.
The investigation is ongoing and the public’s assistance is requested by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Inspector General for Tax Administration. Anyone with information regarding Ibarra, or anyone who believes they are a victim of his impersonation scheme, should contact Special Agent Bruce A. Mason at 602-207-8304.
Every choice has a consequence. As a white collar crime and business ethics speaker, I speak from first hand experience about the truth about consequences. Reality is – no one escapes the consequences of their choices. You do reap what you sow. While an indictment is not an indication of guilt, rarely does a person indicted for something like this end up being found not-guilty.
