Inside tax help for private dances. That's the trade an IRS employee offered a dancer at his favorite South Austin strip club, according to federal court documents.
Charles G. Herndon, 57, of Austin made the proposal last year after Casey Urias, who was a dancer at Exposé on South Congress Avenue, told him she was being audited and hadn't filed a tax return in several years, according a federal court affidavit.
Urias told Treasury Department investigators that "Herndon told her that he worked for the IRS and could help," the affidavit said. "He wanted a dinner date, and private dances and possibly sex at a hotel in exchange for helping her with her taxes."
Herndon illegally accessed Urias' tax account and prepared four years of tax returns for her, the affidavit said. The affidavit does not say whether the meeting took place.
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