Man initially denied person in undercover video was him, before he took off sprinting a mile down 7th Avenue, with O’Keefe giving chase.
An IRS official who was caught on undercover film admitting his agency has no problem destroying the lives of average Americans fled when confronted by journalist James O’Keefe.
O’Keefe recently caught up with IRS Criminal Investigations Unit worker Alex Mena outside a bodega in New York City, asking him for comment on the video last week that showed him telling a female OMG (O’Keefe Media Group) undercover journalist that the IRS “has no problem going after the small people, putting people in prison, and destroying people’s lives.”
Mena initially denied the person in the video was him before he took off running down 7th Avenue attempting to evade the journalists, with O’Keefe giving chase.
In the video last week, Mena also admitted that the IRS has what he described as the unconstitutional authority to access anybody’s bank records.
“They see the amount in your bank account, yes,” Mena said, adding he “doubts” such authority is constitutional.
“[IRS agents] are assholes. They are the definition of an asshole, all of them,” he said. “They all said ‘we were all nice when we started, now look at us.’ They’re like robots right now, all of them.”
When asked by the OMG journalist whether the IRS needs evidence to launch an investigation or audit into a taxpayer, Mena replie that they do not.
“No, not with the IRS,” he said. “They can audit like whoever they want.”
“Like, in six months, they were able to capture half a billion dollars,” he said, adding the Department of Justice and Inspector General control the AI algorithms used to determine if someone needs to be audited.
Mena also recounted a story highlighting IRS agents’ lack of humanity, claiming they’ve been trained to shoot U.S. citizens without emotion.
“When I went to the criminal investigations unit, the guy is telling me, ‘the first person you shoot you’re gonna remember, but after that you’re gonna shoot like a hundred people, you’re not gonna remember any of them.’”
