After failing to report a large portion of income on his personal tax return, former Drug Enforcement Agency agent Greg Campion was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison. The “income” Campion hid went unreported because he’d stolen the cash from his operations against illegal drug runners.

Amazingly, the fact that Campion had skimmed some drug money from the top wasn’t the main issue with IRS or the Department of Justice — it was his failure to complete required paperwork. His theft of the drug money was uncontested, but the feds said the least Campion could do was correctly report his hard-stolen funds on his tax return.

The computer glitch affects taxpayers whose income was below the filing threshold, but e-filed to receive their economic stimulus check. To allow people to e-file their returns, IRS let these people enter $1 for their adjusted gross income.

But, instead of factoring in that dollar as gross income, the Service’s system recorded it as a $2 earned income credit for the e-filers.

And in a rare show of generosity, IRS isn’t asking for the money to be repaid.