Tax assessors arrested in alleged plot to take bribes

Tuesday, February 26, 2002

NEW YORK -- Sixteen tax assessors were arrested Monday for allegedly taking part in a 35-year plot to accept bribes and cheat the city out of hundreds of millions of dollars in property tax revenues, officials said.

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