A New York inmate will spend more time in prison after filing tax returns claiming he was owed a $890 million refund. The AP reports that the forms were submitted to the IRS from 2006 to 2010 while he was incarcerated, and at one point the inmate was mailed a $327,000 check from the government, but prison officials confiscated it. In other blatant examples of why our tax law needs to be reformed, Mitt Romney paid $44,000 more in taxes than he actually owed.
The prisoner, who was serving 2-4 years for possession of stolen property, was convicted on Thursday of filing the bogus claims and will be sentenced in April. He was also convicted of helping a fellow inmate file false returns, but it doesn't look like he'll make it to meet his friend Red in Mexico.
