IRS sends mistaken $2.1 million tax refund to 'Hawaiian princess'


According to an Advertiser story, Abigail Roberts believes she is a Hawaiian princess, and last month "she cashed in on her alleged royal roots, when the Internal Revenue Service mistakenly sent Roberts and her husband a $2.1 million tax refund. ... The refund, according to court records, came from money that Campbell Estate heiress Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawananakoa, 78, had deposited with the IRS to cover her own estimated income taxes."

Here's the Star-Bulletin story.

The AP wire story also made national news in a number of print and TV outlets.

As CNN reports: "The government is suing a cafeteria worker who received a $2.1 million tax refund by claiming to be a Hawaiian princess and heir to a billion-dollar estate, authorities said. The money that the Internal Revenue Service sent last month to Abigail Roberts, 61, who works in Widener University's cafeteria, came from funds the real princess had on deposit with the IRS, according to court documents." (I also saw it on the CNN crawl this morning.)


Posted: Tue - April 27, 2004 at 09:52 AM    
   
 
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