You just can't trust an Florida prison inmate these days, even on their taxes.
Inmates at a South Florida county jail are being accused of scamming the Internal Revenue Service by filing for fraudulent refunds and taking in as much as $100,000.
About 50 inmates from the Stock Island Detention Center in Key West were allegedly involved in the scheme.
The detainees allegedly used a standard IRS form to claim bogus refunds, filing for about $1 million in all. Most of the requested
refunds were for about $5,000. Many checks were sent directly to the jail.
But as you can imagine, the criminals weren't quite smart enough to keep the caper a secret. After all, they were in prison because they got caught doing something wrong before. The scheme was discovered after a how-to note was found in an inmate's cell.
