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FILE - This April 8, 2014 file photo Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. An Internet connection and a stolen identity are all it takes for crooks to collect billions of dollars in stolen federal tax refunds, and the scam is proving too pervasive to stop. A watchdog report in November says the IRS issued $4 billion in fraudulent tax refunds over the previous year to criminals using someone else’s personal information. Holder said this week that the “scale, scope and execution of these fraud schemes” has grown substantially and that the Justice Department in the last year has charged 880 people with such crimes. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
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CORRECTS SPELLING OF LAST NAME TO EGYUD, NOT EGYUND, AND HER TITLE TO CHIEF NURSING OFFICER - Forbes Hospital President Chief Medical Officer Dr. Mark Rubino, center, addresses the media as vice president and chief nursing officer Amber Egyud, left, and Forbes Hospital President and CEO Reese Jackson listen in during the second morning news conference at at the hospital Wednesday, April 9, 2014, in Monreoville, Pa. Two student stabbing victims from Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pa., were in critical condition, according to Rubino. Forbes Regional Medical Center is closest hospital to the school where eight victims were taken. (AP Photo/Tribune Review, Evan Sanders) PITTSBURGH OUT
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Alex Hribal, the suspect in the multiple stabbings at the Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pa., stumbles as he is escorted by police to a district magistrate to be arraigned on Wednesday, April 9, 2014, in Export, Pa. Authorities say Hribal has been charged after allegedly stabbing and slashing at least 19 people, mostly students, in the crowded halls of his suburban Pittsburgh high school Wednesday. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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Alex Hribal, the suspect in the stabbings at the Franklin Regional High School near Pittsburgh, is taken from a district magistrate after he was arraigned on charges in the attack on Wednesday, April 9, 2014 in Export, Pa. Authorities say Hribal has been charged after allegedly stabbing and slashing at least 21 people, mostly students, in the crowded halls of his suburban Pittsburgh high school Wednesday. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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FILE - This file photo provided by the Fairfield, Ohio Police Department shows Katelyn H. Markham who has been missing since Aug. 14, 2011. A year after discovery and identification of her remains in Indiana, the death of the 21-year-old Ohio woman remains as mysterious as her disappearance 20 months before that. (AP Photo/Fairfield Police Department, File)
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Milwaukee Brewers' Ryan Braun (8) celebrates with teammates at the end of a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies, Wednesday, April 9, 2014, in Philadelphia. The Brewers won 9-4. (AP Photo/Michael Perez)