FULTON COUNTY, GA (CBS ATLANTA) -
On Friday, a Fulton County Grand Jury returned a 21-count indictment against a man accused of depositing stolen income tax refund checks.
Jean Samuel Gai is charged with two felony counts and nine misdemeanor counts of theft by taking and 10 felony counts of forgery in the first degree.
The attorney general said Gai deposited 11 Georgia Department of Revenue income tax refund checks totaling over $14,000 that had been stolen from the United States Postal Service in July 2010.
Each check contained the forged signature of the taxpayer.
Gai could be facing a maximum of 129 years in prison.
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