William Joseph, Michael Bennett face ID theft, tax fraud charges

By X_WunderKind_X - 05-01-2012, 08:20 AM - Boxden > BX SportsCenter

William Joseph, Michael Bennett face ID theft, tax fraud charges
Posted by Michael David Smith on May 1, 2012, 10:07 AM EDT

Former NFL players William Joseph, Michael Bennett and Louis Gachelin have been arrested by the FBI and are charged with an identity theft and tax fraud scheme.

The Miami Herald reports that the three are among a group of several people charged with filing false tax returns in other people’s names and then stealing their refunds. More details of the scheme are expected to be revealed today, when the defendants are scheduled to appear in a federal court in Miami.

According to the Herald, lax IRS oversight makes it easy to fraudulently receive tax refunds: The IRS often disperses refund money before actually checking to see that the taxes a filer claims to have paid match what the filer’s employer withheld. The process the IRS uses eventually catches people who misrepresent their own taxes, but a criminal who steals someone else’s identity can receive a refund in that person’s name without the victim of the identity theft ever realizing it. By the time the IRS and the identity theft victim discover the erroneous refund, the money has already been taken by the identity thief — and the IRS allows those identity thieves to have the refunds deposited onto prepaid debit cards, which are difficult to track.

Joseph was a 2003 first-round draft pick of the Giants and Bennett was a 20001 first-round draft pick of the Vikings, and the two were teammates in the final season of both of their carers with the 2010 Raiders. Gachelin was a 2004 draft pick of the Patriots who was briefly on their roster but never made it into a regular-season game.

William Joseph, Michael Bennett face ID theft, tax fraud charges | ProFootballTalk

05-01-2012, 08:21 AM

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05-01-2012, 08:25 AM

Originally Posted by P. Dedos

THE UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU baby [pic]

lmfao ya'll always stay in some !!!!! still can't lie some of best in the NFL came from there, niccas know what the U is doing even when they not high in the BCS rankings

05-01-2012, 08:29 AM

Originally Posted by X_WunderKind_X

lmfao ya'll always stay in some !!!!! still can't lie some of best in the NFL came from there, niccas know what the U is doing even when they not high in the BCS rankings

bounty scandles [pic]

snitching scandles[pic]

prostitute scandles [pic]

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a cane exposing another cane as a snitch scandle [pic]

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05-01-2012, 09:10 AM

Damn is that martellus Bennetts broham??

05-01-2012, 09:12 AM

How they !! up da oldest scam in da book?

05-01-2012, 09:16 AM

i guess they never saved up that NFL paper

05-01-2012, 09:19 AM

Bennett used to be a cheese on MAdden.. He was fast as fuk...

05-01-2012, 01:18 PM

Originally Posted by whodatb1

How they !! up da oldest scam in da book?

PM me on the details how to make it work brah [pic]

05-02-2012, 06:10 AM

Like buddy said earlier everybody down here on that how dem jokers get caught lol smh William Joseph was my high school teammate too at Edison smh

05-02-2012, 07:18 AM

Originally Posted by ChickzNKickz

Bennett used to be a cheese on MAdden.. He was fast as fuk...

[pic] first thing I remembered. Franchise mode he was my back, used to k!ll it in the RB drill in offseason to get them rankings up. Burn niccas all day with em

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