A fired Miami police officer was sentenced to
12 years in prison Friday for stealing hundreds of people’s names from a Florida
driver's license database to score $140,000 in fraudulent income-tax refunds.
Malinsky Bazile, 28, was
convicted in October of swiping the names of 700 women with common last names
and using their Social Security numbers to file false tax returns with the
Internal Revenue Service in 2012.
The IRS not only issued the
refunds, but loaded them onto debit cards. Bazile was caught on videotape
withdrawing the money from ATMs at local banks.
— JAY WEAVER
