copyright the Chronicle December 13, 2017
by Elizabeth Trail
COVENTRY — Property owners who didn’t answer letters from forensic accountant Jeff Graham asking for information about their tax payments will be getting another letter in the mail.
This time the letters are being mailed out on FBI letterhead.
“Jeff’s working for the FBI now,” Coventry Select Board Chair Mike Marcotte said last week. “Maybe this time he’ll get more answers.”
The letters ask property owners to supply details about when and how they paid their property taxes over several recent years.
In the first round of responses, it turned out that a lot of people paid in cash. Those payments were considered to be missing because former Town Clerk, Treasurer and Delinquent Tax Collector Cynthia Diaz didn’t deposit any cash during the years under review, Mr. Graham said at the time.
But about half of the homeowners who got letters from Mr. Graham in 2016 when he was working for the select board never replied.
Mr. Marcotte said a lot of people have called to ask about him about the new round of letters.
“I tell them it’s a good idea to respond,” he said. “If you don’t have receipts, tell them that.”
Mr. Graham, who is certified in forensic accounting, spent more than two years auditing Coventry’s finances.
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