Eastern Michigan University officials say two of its former student employees may have filed fake tax returns using other students’ personal information.
The two students were already under investigation for allegedly stealing 58 student records.
Walter Kraft is VP of communications for EMU. He says now six more students have come forward to say their personal information was stolen:
"Apparently what happened in this case is that the student records were used for the purpose of filing fraudulent tax returns in order for someone to obtain a tax return to which they were not entitled."
Kraft says EMU police and federal authorities are investigating the two former student employees, whose identities have not been released.
He says EMU already does background checks on student employees, and is looking to see what other steps can be taken to ensure this doesn’t happen again.
Nearly 2,000 EMU students currently work for the university.
