Michael Dillon (I.R.S. revenue officer)

Lieutenant (junior grade) Michael Joseph Dillon Jr. (May 15, 1922 in Fall River, Massachusetts – September 23, 1983 in Cheektowaga, New York) was an officer of the US Internal Revenue Service since 1970, who is best known for being one of only two Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Revenue Officers to be killed in the line of duty. He previously served for the U.S. Navy in World War II.[1] Vernon Hunter would be murdered 27 years later in the 2010 Austin suicide attack, becoming the second Revenue Officer to die in the line of duty. [2]

  1. ^ Yancey, R., 2004, Confessions of a Tax Collector, Harper Collins Publishers, New York.
  2. ^ "Victim in Austin Plane Crash Identified « Liveshots". liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com. Archived from the original on 22 February 2010. Retrieved 13 January 2022.