The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Oregon announced
that on July 30, 2004, in U.S. Federal Court for the District of Oregon
the Honorable Ann L. Aiken sentenced BARTON ANTHONY STROMSKI to 12 months
and one day in prison for impersonation of an IRS employee, in violation
of 18 U.S.C. § 912, and for making and using a counterfeit postage meter
stamp, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 501. STROMSKI, a 47 year old resident
of Bly, Oregon, had pleaded guilty to the charges on February 14, 2004.
Court documents related to the case detail that STROMSKI forged IRS
letters in an attempt to harass his former employer. The purported IRS
letters instructed the Corporation to alter its employees withholdings,
prepare for an IRS audit and return STROMSKI'S tax withholdings.
The charges were filed following a year long investigation by the
Treasury Department's Inspector General for Tax Administration into
the phony IRS letters received by a California Corporation. Any questions
may be directed to Assistant United States Attorney, Robert Thomson
at (541) 776-3564, or Special Agent-in-Charge Terry Peacock, Treasury
Inspector General for Tax Administration at (303) 446-1880.
