DOJ files lawsuit against Roger Stone saying he owes nearly $2 million in unpaid taxes...

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Brad Heath
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Apr 16, 2021
DOJ filed a lawsuit today against ex-Trump adviser Roger Stone saying he owes nearly $2 million in unpaid taxes and penalties and that he and his wife used an LLC to "shield their personal income from enforced collection and fund a lavish lifestyle."
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Brad Heath
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DOJ says Stone and his wife moved $1 million to their LLC in 2018-19, then had the LLC pay "a substantial amount of their personal expenses," including groceries and dentist bills. This "evaded and frustrated the IRS's collection efforts."
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[soothsayer]

1. Oh, snap!

I wonder how much his Bitcoin donation site is raking in.

Heck, Donny boy can lend him that, no sweat. Ha

I’m certain this is not covered by a pardon. Oh— civil.

Still good.

[Haggard Celine]

2. Please, get that motherfucker.

I so want him to spend his last years in prison. If he ever gets out, I hope he's broke. If he keeps out of prison this time, he'll probably be able to get enough idiots out there to contribute to him. He needs to be in prison for a while so they'll forget about him by the time he gets out.

[Liberal In Red State]

12. Yes PLEAS DO GET HIS ASS!

[crickets]

23. +1000000

[Bev54]

3. I do hope this is the start of something wonderful!

I want to see this sucker go down.

[2naSalit]

4. +1

[magicarpet]

5. Shoulda gone bye bye a long time ago.

[malaise]

6. Fucker didn't learn from Al Capone

Please please please, pretty please!

[Hassler]

8. And no Chump pardon for rotten Roger.

[malaise]

17. LOL

Stone will be Caponed!

[C_U_L8R]

7. Pardon me?

It's inevitable these crooks are going down. Your turn soon , Trumps.

[Peregrine Took]

9. "Lock him up!" n/t

[dem4decades]

10. Fuck that, bring on the criminal charges,

[monkeyman1]

11. stone had escort from oath keeper's . leader now pleads guilty , dome head is toast !

[MontanaMama]

13. Lock him up already.

So sick of that motherf*cker.

[Paladin]

14. Pay up, shithead. (nt)

[Takket]

15. Garland is moving the chess pieces around. the end of this road we're on is drumpf in prison

knowing the MAGAts, Stone will put out an "impassioned plea" and probably raise millions for idiots handing over half their income to save their hero.

[SheltieLover]

16. Why is he not in jail awaiting trial?

[soldierant]

18. Roger Stone has a wife?!!?

Poor damned woman.

[bucolic_frolic]

19. OMG the DOJ is doing its homework.

That one shot at Roger Stone is a shot across the bow of all of them. Justice is coming, people. If you didn't believe it before, have a stiff whiskey and celebrate!

[trusty elf]

20. ...

[RainCaster]

22. My favorite!

I laughed at that so hard! It's a good thing my beer was set down.

[Bengus81]

21. Lock his ass UP once and for all. Try getting a Presidential pardon NOW Rog...........

Then we can read about that POS dying in prison.

[UTUSN]

24. His tattoo on his back said, "There is no problem in raising a million dollars"!1

********QUOTE**********

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/questions-raised-nixon-watergate-1974-article-1.2130434

Watergate indictments raise questions about President Nixon’s possible involvement in 1974

.... "He (Nixon) asked how much money would be involved over the years and Dean said 'probably a million dollars - but the problem is that it is hard to raise." The President said, "There is no problem in raising a million dollars, we can do that, but it would be wrong." ....

*******UNQUOTE****

[UpInArms]

25. That is how they got Al Capone

How Tax Evasion Toppled Al Capone (+ The Tax Man Who Nailed Him)

The FBI tried relentlessly to catch Capone on bootlegging, racketeering, and murder. They failed.

All the while George Johnson and his team of tax detectives were doing the boring work. They were shuffling through what they had on Capone’s taxes.

Johnson’s tax work never received media attention. He wasn’t publicity-happy like Elliot Ness, and even his name was boring. Ness hogged the spotlight by calling the press any time he raided a shipment of bootlegged liquor. Sledgehammers and smashed barrels were more interesting to the press than shuffled papers and tax forms.

But Johnson nabbed Capone because he was doing the real work behind the scenes.

Al Capone & Tax Evasion

Al Capone once said, “They can’t collect taxes from illegal money.” Because of Johnson’s work, Capone ate his own words on October 18th, 1931 when the tax man came collecting. And Capone paid in time instead of money.

Capone made off with a lot of tax-free money during his years as Chicagoland gangster. He was raking in $60 million (tax-free) annually by the mid-1920s.

Oddly, Capone’s statement about taxes on illegal money was true at the time. But in 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that “gains from illicit traffic in liquor are subject to the income tax.” This ruling on tax law was just what George Johnson needed to put Capone away for a while.

Alfonso Capone of Chicago was indicted on 22 separate accounts of federal income tax evasion. Johnson wasn’t just successful in bringing in Capone on these charges either. Johnson’s work was a net that fished out Capone’s brothers, Jake “Greasy Thumb,” Ralph “Bottles” Capone, and a few other lower level gangsters connected to Capone’s empire.

On Oct. 17th, 1931 Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion. Capone entered a plea deal on the charges. He asked for a reduced sentence of only two years in prison with good behavior. But the judge said “no.”

Capone received 11 years in the “lock-up”. The government fined him $50,000 ($847,111 in today’s dollars). Court costs were a damning $215,000 ($3,642,576 today).

Tax Evasion Put Capone in Alcatraz

Thanks to a little-known tax lawyer’s stellar work, Capone ended up in Alcatraz. Capone thought he’d be able to schmooze his way through the prison system. Alcatraz’s guards were as incorruptible as Uncle Sam himself.