Paul Camacho

IRS Special Agent Paul Camacho reminded the public that his organization caught Al Capone, "and we're just as good
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"We will be relentless in our pursuit," Camacho said, adding that it is "un-American" to cheat on taxes.

Camacho would not comment on how the investigation into the four Utahns was initiated, but he said it often takes years to dissect a plan so elaborate.

I-R-S agent for Idaho, Paul Camacho, says the case shows, as he put it, "it is an illusion that income taxes can somehow be dodged."

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Paul Camacho, Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Criminal Investigation Division, IRS-Seattle Field Office, "IRS Criminal Investigations" | Request For Help | Minimum Attendance Requirements Changed | Club to Club Nepal Project: Rob Rose is Readying for Another Trip
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Paul CamachoAssistant Special Agent in ChargeCriminal Investigation DivisionIRS-Seattle Field Office
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Paul Camacho is the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the IRS Criminal Investigation Seattle Field Office.This office covers Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Hawaii, Alaska and Guam.Paul has been with the IRS for 20 years, and he is a Certified Public Accountant (California) who graduated from Cal State University Hayward with a BS in Accounting.

Paul started at the IRS as as a Revenue Agent auditing small businesses.In 1993, he graduated from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and began his career as a Special Agent.His previous positions within the Criminal division include Supervisory Special Agent and Senior Analysts in IRS Criminal Headquarters.

"It is an illusion to believe that the IRS lacks the authority and jurisdiction to collect the income tax, and it is an illusion that income taxes can somehow be dodged," said Paul Camacho, the IRS Assistant Special Agent in Charge for Idaho.

Paul CamachoAssistant Special Agent in ChargeCriminal Investigation DivisionIRS-Seattle Field Office

IRS, Paul Camacho.

Paul Camacho, "IRS Criminal Investigations" Apologizing to the members for not bring the Groucho Nose & Glasses disguises, Prez Dave introduced Internal Revenue Service Special Agent Paul Camacho.Agent Camacho thanked David noting he wasn't at Rotary to find any more investigation opportunities as he is already too busy.Besides he gets all his new clients "from the Lions Clubs".Paul said he once tried to join the Rotary, but his application was disallowed by the District Governor because the Rotary doesn't have a vocational classification for, "The devil incarnate".

Besides being a sworn officer of the law, Agent Camacho is also a Certified Public Accountant.He said he is armed with a gun, a badge and a calculator, the latter being his most lethal weapon.The kind of work he does is called forensic accounting, (book and TV mini-series expected in the near future, "CSI-IRS").The Walnut Creek office he supervises has 10 special agents who investigate money laundering, and tax evasion schemes with a special emphasis on Silicon Valley Hi-Tech crimes.
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Camacho noted however, that these individuals are "conspirators" and are subject to "enhanced penalties" when caught and prosecuted.He said there is no loyalty among criminals and this is a major source of his convictions as "caught" criminals rat right and left on their associates to plea bargain themselves into reduced sentences.Camacho said he has "seen and heard it all" as criminals rat on sons and daughter, mothers and fathers, etc., in and orgy of betrayal.

Agent Camacho then describe his investigation of hi-tech crime in Silicon Valley.Essentially, un-rehabilitated former drug dealers turned "dumpster diving" into high volume theft.Dumpster diving is a form of recycling in which valuable trash, motherboards, etc. is fished out of the trash of Silicon Valley manufacturers and resold.It was unclear from Camacho's presentation whether dumpster diving is illegal itself, but it definitely becomes illegal when the "divers' hook up with the janitors throwing out the trash , especially when the janitors start including large quantities of newly manufactured product.During the hay day of Silicon Valley, illegal sellers were making so much money selling stolen product into networks of used computer stores that they had to set up networks of money laundering operations through "friendly" check cashing operations, which did not process the IRS currency tracking forms.Camacho estimated that at its zenith, the illegal electronics theft operations were processing $17MM/year through one notorious check cashing operation in the valley.The theft operation was uncovered when police and IRS agents picked up and interrogated a known drug dealer who broke his parole conditions.As an informant, he led the IRS into the entire operation.Camacho suggested that silicon theft has been largely disrupted because of this operation and the subsequent slow-down in the economy that has allowed hi tech manufactures to reform their manufacturing and inventory accounting practices.

Paul Camacho, "IRS Criminal Investigations" Apologizing to the members for not bring the Groucho Nose & Glasses disguises, Prez Dave introduced Internal Revenue Service Special Agent Paul Camacho.Agent Camacho thanked David noting he wasn't at Rotary to find any more investigation opportunities as he is already too busy.Besides he gets all his new clients "from the Lions Clubs".Paul said he once tried to join the Rotary, but his application was disallowed by the District Governor because the Rotary doesn't have a vocational classification for, "The devil incarnate".

Besides being a sworn officer of the law, Agent Camacho is also a Certified Public Accountant.He said he is armed with a gun, a badge and a calculator, the latter being his most lethal weapon.The kind of work he does is called forensic accounting, (book and TV mini-series expected in the near future, "CSI-IRS").The Walnut Creek office he supervises has 10 special agents who investigate money laundering, and tax evasion schemes with a special emphasis on Silicon Valley Hi-Tech crimes.
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Camacho noted however, that these individuals are "conspirators" and are subject to "enhanced penalties" when caught and prosecuted.He said there is no loyalty among criminals and this is a major source of his convictions as "caught" criminals rat right and left on their associates to plea bargain themselves into reduced sentences.Camacho said he has "seen and heard it all" as criminals rat on sons and daughter, mothers and fathers, etc., in and orgy of betrayal.

Agent Camacho then describe his investigation of hi-tech crime in Silicon Valley.Essentially, un-rehabilitated former drug dealers turned "dumpster diving" into high volume theft.Dumpster diving is a form of recycling in which valuable trash, motherboards, etc. is fished out of the trash of Silicon Valley manufacturers and resold.It was unclear from Camacho's presentation whether dumpster diving is illegal itself, but it definitely becomes illegal when the "divers' hook up with the janitors throwing out the trash , especially when the janitors start including large quantities of newly manufactured product.During the hay day of Silicon Valley, illegal sellers were making so much money selling stolen product into networks of used computer stores that they had to set up networks of money laundering operations through "friendly" check cashing operations, which did not process the IRS currency tracking forms.Camacho estimated that at its zenith, the illegal electronics theft operations were processing $17MM/year through one notorious check cashing operation in the valley.The theft operation was uncovered when police and IRS agents picked up and interrogated a known drug dealer who broke his parole conditions.As an informant, he led the IRS into the entire operation.Camacho suggested that silicon theft has been largely disrupted because of this operation and the subsequent slow-down in the economy that has allowed hi tech manufactures to reform their manufacturing and inventory accounting practices.