Sunday, June 28, 2015

60 Minutes

CBS News

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

3.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2015

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Con artists have been filing bogus tax returns and collecting millions. Steve Kroft finds out how far the scam has gone and why the IRS hasn't been able to stop it. The Secretary of Veterans Affairs tells Scott Pelley about his personal mission to reorganize the troubled agency for his fellow vets. While profiling Foo Fighters and their frontman Dave Grohl, Anderson Cooper accompanies the band on an exploration into the roots of American music; all that and more on "60 Minutes." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	You're listening, add free on Wondry Plus.
0:04.0	Was this like a community of people doing this?
0:09.0	More like a nation of people doing this.
0:12.0	He's talking about a scam so simple you think it would never work.
0:16.0	But for years now, people like Corey Williams have been filing bogus tax returns
0:21.0	in order to collect billions of dollars in fraudulent refunds.
0:25.0	By the year 2016, IRS will be hemorrhaging and losing $21 billion due to this type of fraud.
0:34.0	It's only 2014. Don't you think something can be done in the next two years to fix this?
0:38.0	Well, that is my hope.
0:41.0	The Department of Veterans Affairs is a behemoth, the second largest agency in the entire government
0:48.0	and America's largest healthcare system.
0:51.0	It's suffered the biggest scandal in its history.
0:54.0	Can one of America's top CEOs fix it?
0:58.0	How long is that going to take?
1:00.0	Well, it's going to take time. The news media is not helping me, right?
1:03.0	Because every adversary outcome that gets amplified by the media doesn't help me.
1:09.0	I was on a bad reputation.
1:11.0	I do, but we're changing it.
1:16.0	I have a one-way, far away.
1:21.0	Two fighters may be America's best rock and roll band.
1:25.0	That's not the only reason they're on 60 minutes tonight.
1:28.0	No, no, no, no.
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