On May 20, 1990, Cheryl Kosilek went to the Emerald Square Mall in North Attleborough, Massachusetts. She never made it home alive. Her body was found in the back of her car in the parking lot; she had been strangled to death. Cheryl’s husband, Robert Kosilek, was eventually convicted of her murder in the first…
Nearly 10 years ago, Rhiannon O’Donnabhain (then Robert Donovan) underwent sex-change and breast augmentation surgeries in order to complete her transformation from male to female for a Gender Identity Disorder (GID). She claimed the costs of the procedures on her tax return as a medical deduction, arguing that the procedures were medically necessary and not…
The court case involving Rhiannon O’Donnabhain, the 63-year-old transgendered female who is suing the Internal Revenue Service to be allowed to deduct the cost of her sex change operation, just got a little more interesting – as if that were possible! The IRS and lawyers for O’Donnabhain sides rested their cases last week, but not…
Rhiannon O’Donnabhain is challenging a decision not to allow the $25,000 cost of her 2001 sex-change and breast augmentation surgeries as a tax deduction. According to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), both surgeries were elective and cosmetic, and therefore not deductible as medical expenses. 63-year old O’Donnabhain argued in Tax Court that the procedures were…