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TAX SCAM: NJ Man Admits Posing As 18 Different People To Collect Returns TAX SCAM: NJ Man Admits Posing As 18 Different People To Collect Returns
TAX Scam: NJ Man Admits Posing As 18 Different People To Collect Returns A Bergen County man admitted collecting tax refunds by using stolen identities to pose as 18 different people. Emmanuel A. Barrientos-Fermin, 33, of Tenafly told a federal judge via videoconference in Newark on Tuesday that he gave an unnamed co-conspirator a photo of himself. The accomplice then produced bogus driver’s licenses with his picture on them, he said. The co-conspirator also gave him matching Social Security cards, driver’s licenses and W-2 forms – even birth certificates, Barrientos-Fermin said. Armed with the documents, Barrientos-Fermin said, he went to various tax preparin…

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