Federal prosecutors stated in court papers that Ayers-Zander, a tax office employee, stole the money between 2007 and January of this year in a scheme that involved fraudulently adjusting withholding credits in four taxpayers’ accounts. By doing so, prosecutors wrote, the District made 48 electronic transfers totalling $365,281 to two personal accounts that Ayers-Zander controlled.

She also fraudulently adjusted withholding credits of five other people, resulting in $46,175 being issued to them, prosecutors alleged.

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