IRS Agent Busted for Attempting to Extort $20,000 from Cannabis Shop Owner

Seattle, Washington – An IRS agent was arrested this week after he was caught attempting to con a Seattle marijuana shop owner out of $20,000.
The 42-year-old agent, Paul G. Hurley, reportedly demanded a $20,000 bribe from the shop owner, in exchange for a break on an audit. In fact, Hurley had said that he saved the business owner over a million dollars on his tax return, and that his current tax bill was just under $300,000.
The shop owner was not even concerned with getting a break, so when the agent left he contacted federal authorities who set up a sting operation wherein the shop owner gave the IRS agent money for the bribe.
Hurley met with the owner on several occasions during an audit and mentioned how he was unhappy with his job at the IRS and that he was living paycheck to paycheck. The two met at a nearby Starbucks on several different occasions to discuss the deal and each time the shop owner wore a wire and was followed by undercover police.
The agent allegedly threatened the owner with a massive tax bill, saying that he owed an obnoxious amount because he was involved in the marijuana industry which is illegal on the federal level. The agent asked for $20,000 up front, and at one point in the negotiation asked the owner to help him pay his student loans over time.
Hurley is currently facing up to 15 years in jail for charges of soliciting and agreeing to receive a bribe and two counts of receiving a bribe by a public official.
Hurley has been an IRS revenue agent since 2009, according to court documents.
The irony in this situation is that IRS agents legally demand money from people all the time and no one bats an eye.


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Glad they got the thief.

Between this scum and the government crooks that took down dread pirate Roberts, I am starting to think the government is as crooked as the criminals.

Yall are aware that United States Code, Title 26, was never passed into law.

The IRS has been operating illegally since its inception. Title 26 only has the power that YOU give it.

For more information search for Joe Bannister, ex IRS CID (Criminal Investigation Division) agent.

Joseph Ronald Banister is a former special agent of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and anti-tax activist. Banister resigned from the IRS and later appeared on the television program "60 Minutes II" challenging the conduct of the IRS concerning legal issues with taxation. Banister's books and other material challenge the legality of some aspects of the income tax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Banister

Anyone know what shop?

In a way I've got to love that the business has become legal to a point where a dispensary owner can contact the police to bust a federal agent.

Yes, progress.

Progress is not as possible as you think when you have a private banking cartel running the show. That is the Federal Reserve. Even more sinister than that is the BIS - Bank of International Settlements. They are the quiet, seldom thought of or seen overlords of planet Earth.

-Funk