By Richard Horgan Los Angeles (Knewz) — It all started with a ProPublica investigative report, “Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free,” published in the fall of 2019. The article led the New York Attorney General’s office to open an investigation, in partnership with Tennessee, into allegations that TurboTax’s “Free Edition” program was run as a bait-and-switch, coercing many lower-income taxpayers into paying for returns that should have been free under IRS guidelines. On May 4, a settlement of $141 million with TurboTax parent company Intuit was a…