Man Suspected of Stealing Confidential Internal Revenue Service Document Identified
One wrongdoer in the improper seizure of a confidential document issued by the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") from a home in Yolo County has been identified.
The alleged wrongdoer, Peter Martin (aka Pete Martin), a former Computer Forensic Examiner with the Yolo County District Attorney’s office, was positively identified as the individual who improperly confiscated a confidential document issued by the IRS pertaining to a complaint Yolo County-based YR submitted against Voice of OC.
Per YR, “On February 23, 2012, Yolo DA investigators executed a search warrant at my residence in Yolo County. The warrant authorized the Yolo DA to retrieve information relating to various named individuals. Along with a desktop computer, a laptop computer, hard drive, other computer equipment, and many other materials (particularly documents and notebooks) not authorized by the search warrant, the investigators took the liberty of confiscating a letter from the IRS to me pertaining to a complaint I filed against this so called online news agency Voice of OC.
While Lieutenant Connor was the officer in charge during the raid as far as operations, Pete Martin was responsible for determining what documents and items to take and not to take.
After this bizarre search and seizure was concluded, Pete Martin presented to me an invoice to sign, and allowed me to quickly inspect the materials about to be confiscated. I immediately noticed that a confidential document sent to me by the IRS was among the stacks of papers and notebooks taken.
I asked Mr. Martin why he is taking all those documents, and he stated that any and all documents referencing or relating to the State Bar of California are being confiscated. When I pointed to him that the document issued by the IRS mentions neither the State Bar of California nor any person listed on the warrant, a defiant Mr. Martin stated that the document would be confiscated nevertheless.”
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