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tax evasion

Get Me Out of Here, I’m a “Celebrity Apprentice”

15 March 2011

Is it just me or does anyone else secretly wonder whether Donald Trump phoned up the judge in the Richard Hatch matter and tipped him off as to where and what Hatch was doing? I just find the timing odd (and yes, it did cross my mind that the Donald had a conversation with God [...]

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HSBC Client Sentences Handed Down

7 February 2011

Hot off the heels of an IRS announcement about a new amnesty plan for taxpayers with offshore accounts, a federal judge brought down the hammer on a tax evasion case involving those same kind of accounts. Mauricio Cohen and Leon Cohen-Levy (father and son, in case you wondered about the similar names) were sentenced to [...]

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Prisons and Taxes: It’s a Steal

3 February 2011

My friend @CharlesThomas, a Pennsylvania defense attorney, once opined, when asked how to stay out of jail: Stop stealing sh*t. Apparently, not everyone follows that advice. For the past several years, inmates in federal prisons have been cheating taxpayers out of millions of dollars by claiming bogus tax refunds. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) puts the [...]

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Reporting Tax Cheats: The San Francisco Treat

2 February 2011

Would you report your neighbor for cheating on their taxes? What if you got paid for doing it? San Francisco has, for the last five years, offered up to 10% of the take for members of public who turn in their neighbors for failing to pay their fair share of taxes. It’s not the only [...]

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IRS To Announce New Amnesty Plan

27 January 2011

If you thought the steady stream of IRS announcements related to offshore accounts investigations happened to be a coincidence, imagine me shaking my head and clucking… This week, the IRS made noise about a new amnesty program targeting wealthy Americans and offshore accounts. I know what you’re thinking: Didn’t we just have one of those? [...]

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First UBS, Now HSBC?

27 January 2011

You knew that it would be just a matter of time before the IRS set its sights on a new bank. Fresh off of victories involving UBS and Deutsche Bank related to tax fraud/tax evasion, the IRS has now targeted an “unknown British bank” for its role in a tax evasion scheme. As before, the [...]

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“Big Brother” Watches “Big Brother” (Psst, One of those is IRS)

22 January 2011

I have to wonder what those casting folks at CBS’ reality shows are looking for… A basic knowledge of tax laws clearly isn’t one of the criteria. Now that Richard Hatch is out of jail for tax evasion, the “former winning cast member of a CBS show now in jail for tax evasion” role goes [...]

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Another Hatch Trick?

16 December 2010

So when I heard that Richard Hatch allegedly violated the terms of his probation (insert eye roll here), I assumed it was something silly like not checking in with his probation officer or not getting permission to do an interview or something (as he is wont to do). But no. It appears he just likes [...]

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Snipes Heads to Prison

2 December 2010

Actor Wesley Snipes will be spending the holidays in bucolic Pennsylvania. He just won’t be enjoying his surroundings. Snipes was ordered to report to the Federal Correctional Institution McKean in Lewis Run, Pennsylvania, by noon on December 9. The orders follow Snipes’ unsuccessful appeal (well, appeals) of his sentence for tax evasion. McKean is a [...]

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Snipes Saga Finally Over?

19 November 2010

ABC News is reporting that Wesley Snipes must now report to jail after his request for a new trial was denied by a federal judge. U.S. District Court Judge William Terrell Hodges wrote about the denial: The Defendant Snipes had a fair trial; he has had a full, fair, and thorough review of his conviction [...]

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