{"id":13372,"date":"2015-06-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/irs-used-hundreds-of-lawyers-to-hide-info-from-congress\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:03:10","slug":"irs-used-hundreds-of-lawyers-to-hide-info-from-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/irs-used-hundreds-of-lawyers-to-hide-info-from-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS used &#8216;hundreds of lawyers&#8217; to hide info from Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tax-relief industry loves to make IRS problems sound impossible without them. They&#039;re not. I&#039;m Darrin Mish. I&#039;ve been representing taxpayers before the IRS for 32 years. Let me explain how this actually works.<\/p>\n<p>www.wnd.com \u2014 It\u2019s been a very bad week for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) \u2013 which translates into a very bad week for the American people.<\/p>\n<p>First, it was revealed the IRS failed to implement critical upgrades to its computer systems which made it much easier for Russian hackers to steal information from more than 100,000 taxpayers. Then, if Russian hackers weren\u2019t enough, an IRS employee in Missouri pleaded guilty to stealing more than $325,000 by filing fraudulent tax returns \u2013 stealing the identities of American taxpayers<\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2015\/06\/irs-used-hundreds-of-lawyers-to-hide-info-from-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IRS used &#8216;hundreds of lawyers&#8217; to hide info from Congress<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out more <a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/category\/irs-news\/\">IRS News<\/a> stories by clicking that link.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_map_compat\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_address_compat show-address show-address-only\"><div class=\"rank-math-contact-section rank-math-contact-address\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_opening_hours_compat\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tax-relief industry loves to make IRS problems sound impossible without them. They&#039;re not. I&#039;m Darrin Mish. I&#039;ve been representing taxpayers before the IRS for 32 years. Let me explain how this actually works. www.wnd.com \u2014 It\u2019s been a very bad week for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) \u2013 which translates into a very bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22561,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13372\/revisions\/22561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}