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| Friday, March 4, 2005 | Channing Phillips (202) 514-6933 |
| Former
IRS employee pleads guilty to theft of government property for using government credit card to charge $23,971 in personal expenses |
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Washington, D.C. - United States Attorney Kenneth
L. Wainstein announced that Jeffrey P. Kmonk, 54, formerly of Warrenton,
Virginia, pled guilty yesterday before Senior United States District
Judge John Garrett Penn to a criminal Information charging him with
theft of Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") property. Kmonk
faces a maximum sentence of up to ten years in prison and a likely
term of up to six months in jail and probation under the Federal Sentencing
Guidelines when he is sentenced on May 24, 2005. Kmonk, who worked for the Internal Revenue Service between 1984 and 2004, admitted to theft of IRS property while working as an IRS computer procurement employee by making approximately $23,971 in personal charges on a Citibank Government Purchase Card issued to him for use in official IRS business. Despite being prohibited from using the card for any personal expenses, Kmonk, between July 1999 and May 2002, placed charges on the card to purchase computer equipment and supplies that he used for his personal benefit and for the benefit of his family members. As part of the plea agreement, Kmonk was required to voluntarily resign from his IRS employment. In announcing the guilty plea, United States Attorney Wainstein commended the fine investigative work of Special Agents Lisa Pace, Julie Meehan and Trevor Nelson of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. He also thanked legal assistant Teesha Tobias, former Assistant United States Attorney Alexia Pappas, and Assistant United States Attorney John Griffith who obtained the guilty plea. |
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