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The FBI has charged a Bronx mailman in a massive tax refund scam run out of the Dominican Republic that’s already cost taxpayers $40 million.

Lacy Bethea, 51, was nabbed Monday after he left his Jerome Ave. post office with a stash of 75 bogus refund checks planted by the feds that he planned to hand off to two of his cohorts.

“I pulled the plastic bag from Bethea’s left jacket pocket, after which Bethea gasped loudly,” FBI Special Agent Seamus Clarke reveals in a criminal complaint filed in Manhattan Federal Court.

In the Dominican Republic, authorities rounded up 19 people and seized more than a dozen computers. Read more..

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