June 18th, 2008
Sometimes, when it sounds too good to be true, it is.
JK Harris and Company, LLC, a national tax debt firm that promised to help folks settle tax debts, has agreed to change its advertising practice and pay millions of dollars in restitution under a settlement with attorneys general in 18 states. The settlement also […]
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June 6th, 2008
Will UBS name names as part of an ongoing investigation into its offshore accounts? Maybe.
The Times is reporting that UBS may reveal the names of up to 20,000 of its American clients as part of the investigation into alleged “tax irregularities.” A spokesman for UBS has, of course, declined to comment.
The US government […]
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June 5th, 2008
A federal judge has thrown out the conviction and ordered the release of Samir Al-Monla, a former Islamic charity leader. Al-Monla was immediately released.
The same judge, US District Court Judge Dennis Saylor IV, partially overturned the sentence against two others, Emadeddin Muntasser and Muhammed Mubayyid, ruling that prosecutors failed to prove conspiracy and tax-related […]
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June 3rd, 2008
The first ever winner of CBS’ Survivor has appealed his tax evasion conviction to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Richard Hatch was convicted of failing to pay taxes on the $1 million prize on Survivor in 2000. He was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison. He had previously appealed his conviction to the United […]
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June 1st, 2008
An Internal Revenue Service tax examiner was arrested this week on charges that he used IRS records to examine personal information of celebrities (and his neighbor).
John Snyder, an IRS tax examiner based in Kentucky, is charged with looking up personal information for 197 celebs. Exactly which celebrities merited such prying by Snyder? The […]
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May 24th, 2008
Wesley Snipes better enjoy his Memorial Day weekend. If he doesn’t win his appeal, it may be the last holiday weekend that he enjoys for a few years.
Snipes was scheduled to report to federal prison on June 3 but was granted a reprieve. Nonetheless, Snipes will eventually have to surrender to federal prison authorities […]
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May 21st, 2008
Lou Pearlman, the man who (a) created some of the most successful boy bands in music history or (b) kickstarted a trend that killed the music industry - depending on your point of view - was sentenced to 25 years in prison following a plea in March to two counts of conspiracy and single counts […]
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May 16th, 2008
Melanie Taylor should feel comfortable behind bars: her participation in a tax fraud scheme with prisoners will likely land her in prison.
Taylor has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to tax fraud charges stemming from a scheme that she ran with inmates at the Maryland Department of Corrections and other prisons. The tax losses are […]
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May 2nd, 2008
I mean, his legal appeal, of course. I don’t get his media appeal - other than White Men Can’t Jump, which was admittedly entertaining, I am not a fan. Blade, in particular, just isn’t my cup of tea.
That said, in legal news, lawyers for Wesley Snipes have filed notice with the […]
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April 30th, 2008
Pennsylvania State Senator Vincent J. Fumo is facing charges on 139 indictments including 2 counts each of filing false tax returns and aiding and assisting in the filing of false tax returns. Gilbert Coleman, Jr., senior pastor of Freedom Christian Bible Fellowship in Philadelphia, believes that those charges have made Fumo an angry man.
Gilbert […]
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