D.C. Tax Scam Mastermind Expanded Existing Ploy

Washington Post:
The woman who masterminded the biggest embezzlement in D.C. government history inherited a scam running in the city's tax office and relied on a culture of mismanagement and corruption so entrenched that she escaped notice for almost 20 years.
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