CU Helps Bust Massive Tax Fraud Scheme
Alert employees at Widget Financial Credit Union in Erie, PA, are being credited by federal authorities with helping to break an extensive tax refund scam involving the use of 11,468 stolen identities used to open 3,493 accounts at 443 credit unions and banks. In all, authorities say that the 16 people indicted in the scam sought to obtain more than $38 million in fraudulent tax refunds. [2/10/15]