{"id":14341,"date":"2015-11-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/irs-agent-charged-with-sexual-battery\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:09:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:09:38","slug":"irs-agent-charged-with-sexual-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/irs-agent-charged-with-sexual-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS Agent Charged with Sexual Battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of what you&#039;ve read online about IRS problems is wrong, or at least misleading. I&#039;m Darrin Mish. I practice tax law in Tampa and I&#039;ve been doing this for 32 years. Here&#039;s what&#039;s actually true.<\/p>\n<p>IRS agent Samuel Garza is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2015\/09\/23\/woman-convenience-store-owner-irs-agent-choked-sexually-abused\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">charged with committing multiple act<\/a>s of sexual battery against <a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/tag\/irs-audit\/\">a woman while in the process of auditing her business.<\/a> The woman, in her fifties, is the owner of a convenience store in Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>The woman gave testimony for two hours in a preliminary hearing. The DA\u2019s office revealed to the court that is has both audio and video of the incident that confirms her allegations. Garza also signed a sworn statement admitting his own guilt.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"pullquote\">His plea at the hearing was \u201cnot guilty.\u201d He presently faces two charges of sexual battery and an additional charge of aggravated assault. His bail, originally set at $200,000 was increased to $300,000. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Agents that work for the IRS and similar organizations draw a lot of attention when involved in these types of cases. The public places a great deal of trust in them and, if convicted, their punishment can be stiff.<\/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>Most of what you&#039;ve read online about IRS problems is wrong, or at least misleading. I&#039;m Darrin Mish. I practice tax law in Tampa and I&#039;ve been doing this for 32 years. Here&#039;s what&#039;s actually true. IRS agent Samuel Garza is charged with committing multiple acts of sexual battery against a woman while in the [&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":[28],"class_list":["post-14341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news","tag-irs-audit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14341","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=14341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22692,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14341\/revisions\/22692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}