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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCreationist Kent Hovind Is Revenge-Suing the Government for $536,041,100.00
Hes basically seeking revenge on the government for convicting him, in 2006, of not paying income taxes something he bragged about both privately and publicly, only to play dumb in the courtroom and structuring bank transactions so that he would always withdraw just under $10,000 at a time (since anything above that would have required reporting by the bank). He always insisted he didnt have to pay taxes because his money and property belonged to God, not the government.
According to the lawsuit, filed two weeks ago in federal court, Hovind and Hansen are going after you ready for this? the government, the judge in Hovinds two cases, the U.S. attorneys who prosecuted them, an IRS agent, and Hovinds own attorney from 2006 by saying they violated the plaintiffs First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth, Tenth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. The men also say the defendants were imposing law illegally on land that does not belong to the United States. (This is known as a sovereign citizen argument.)
That page claims that Hovind is owed money that amounts to:
Whatever his ministry would have made each year between 2004 and 2020, assuming a conservative 12% growth rate. His ministry took in $2.5 million in 2006, so by 2020, he says, he would have made $12.22 million had the government not interfered with him. All together, that comes out to $90.7 million.
$3,500 per day of false imprisonment, which comes out to $10,860,500.
$300 per month for commissary and phone privileges while in jail. Thats a total of $30,600.
Seized property valued at approximately $3 million.
All the emotional distress and anguish and punitive damages, and financial damages
which amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars.
In sum, the total proposed damages come out to $536,041,100.00. More than half a billion dollars.
https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/06/08/creationist-kent-hovind-is-revenge-suing-the-government-for-536041100-00/
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Nice try, though.
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,941 posts)samsingh
(17,599 posts)and the worry that he could escape
TheBlackAdder
(28,209 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)I saw him in a creationism-vs-evolution Youtube-debate. He was debating a Youtuber called "Professor Dave".
* Kent Hovind would regularly pull out some comedic gimmick how the other person is stupid.
* He would refuse to use official definitions and refuse to give hard definitions for his own terms. "What is a 'kind', expressed in biological terms?"
* When cornered, he would either say that the topic is unfair because he is unprepared for that, or he would simply outright change topics and start talking about something else entirely.
Btw, he has a doctorate degree. From a diploma-mill in bumfuck-nowhere.
RockRaven
(14,972 posts)degree mill literally begins with "Hello, my name is Kent Hovind."
That guy is permanent
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)We're just like Trump University but even better!
NCjack
(10,279 posts)on the next Trump disaster, and after it occurs, lead us to safety.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)As a frivolous lawsuit.