Swampscott IRS Agent Charged With Filing False Tax Returns

SWAMPSCOTT, MA — A 17-year Internal Revenue Service agent and visiting professor from Swampscott was charged with filing false personal tax returns of her own for three years.

The U.S. District Attorney's Office said Ndeye Amy Thioub, 67, who also worked as a visiting instructor at Salem State University, was to appear in federal court in Boston on Wednesday afternoon to face charges that she filed a false Schedule C form claiming a business loss from an "import and export" business that she claimed to have.

The U.S. Attorney's Office said the false claims lowered her taxable income by about $90,000 over three years.

She was last working as a revenue agent assigned to the Large Business and International Division of the IRS conducting independent field examinations and related investigations.

She also taught classes at Salem State that included instruction on the verification of records, valuation and analysis of accounts, the importance of financial accounting and financial statements, professional standards, ethics, professional responsibilities and legal liability issues facing auditors, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

The charge of filing a false tax return provides for a sentence of up to three years in prison, followed by one year of supervised release and a $100,000 fine.