Former IRS employee charged in $2.1 million Exxon Mobil tax credit theft attempt in Utah
A former IRS employee was charged in Utah federal court for allegedly trying to steal $2.1 million in tax credits owed to Exxon Mobil by diverting the funds using a taxpayer database he had access to. Prosecutors said Wednesday that former IRS account management worker Rodney Quinn Rupe received a U.S. Treasury check for $2,100,377 in January after diverting Exxon's tax credits to an entity he had created, and then tried to deposit the check at multiple credit union locations over the next two months. Rupe, a 46-year-old who lives in Syracuse, Utah, is charged with wire fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud and theft of government property in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City. He is due to make his first appearance in th
