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Northern District of Texas

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Dallas, Texas 75242-1699

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FORMER BANK EMPLOYEE SENTENCED FOR
STEALING CHECKS FROM IRS LOCKBOX

Ursula Nicole Moore, an former employee of Bank of America, was sentenced yesterday by the Honorable Jane J. Boyle, United States District Judge, to five years probation, announced United States Attorney Richard B. Roper. Judge Boyle also ordered that Moore pay $17,256 restitution to several banks.

Moore, stole approximately $30,000 in money orders and checks from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Lockbox operation at Bank of America, in Richardson, Texas, while she was an employee of Bank of America. In August 2006, she pled guilty to one count of theft of government property.

Bank of America operates the IRS Lockbox facility under a contract with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the U.S. Department of Treasury, Financial Management Service. The IRS Dallas Lockbox receives taxpayer remittances, that is, tax payments, at several U.S. Postal Service boxes in Dallas. From November 28, 2005 until June 14, 2006, Ursula Nicole Moore worked as a part-time employee of Bank of America at the IRS Dallas Lockbox, in the extraction department, removing taxpayer remittance checks from the envelopes in which they were mailed for further processing.

Between February and April 2006, Moore, without permission, removed monetary instruments from the IRS Dallas Lockbox, all mailed by United States taxpayers to the IRS Dallas Lockbox, all payable to the IRS or a blank payee. Moore changed the payee on the instruments payable to the IRS by converting “IRS” to “URSULSA MOORE” and inserted her name on the instruments with a blank payee. She endorsed them and either cashed them at ACE Cash Express, a commercial check cashing business in Dallas, or deposited them into a personal checking account.

U.S. Attorney Roper praised the investigative efforts of the Department of Treasury, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Joseph M. Revesz.

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