- I was drawn to public service
because I wanted to help
people and make a difference.
There's always been
something deep inside of me
where I believed that helping people
or being involved in the community
was really an important thing to do.
The Treasury Inspector
General for Tax Administration
is a relatively small agency.
800 people in the agency.
400 people in the law
enforcement component.
Our mission is to
protect the $3.3 trillion
that goes through the Internal
Revenue Service each year.
The scam is very simple
and it's an age-old scam.
And, it's where somebody
calls you out of the blue,
claims to be the federal government,
any agency in the government,
but, in this case, the
Internal Revenue Service
that everybody fears,
tells you that you owe tax
and then immediately and very aggressively
demands that either you pay that right now
or you're gonna go to jail.
That's the scam.
Staying one step ahead of the criminals
is a challenge for all law enforcement,
but, for really, for us in particular.
I would like my legacy to be remembered
and known as somebody that cared deeply
about protecting innocent Americans.
Everybody that works in my
agency has that spirit in them
and we feed off of each other.
So, for us, every day we come
to work, it's a new adventure.
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