Jim Justice agrees to pay $5M in back taxes after DOJ files suit [View all]
Source: The Hill
11/25/25 10:43 AM ET
Sen. Jim Justice (R-W.Va.) on Monday agreed to pay more than $5 million in back taxes to settle a Department of Justice lawsuit stemming from nearly two decades ago.
The Justice Department filed suit against Justice early on Monday, saying that the West Virginia Republican has “neglected or refused to make full payment” of $5.16 million in debt that he and his wife owed in 2009. It was filed in the Southern District of West Virginia and at the request of the IRS. Later in the day, a separate filing showed that Justice and his wife agreed to pay back the total in full.
Justice won his seat in the upper chamber last year after serving as West Virginia’s governor since 2017. He is also the heir to Bluestone, a West Virginia coal company, and owns the Greenbriar Resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.
A Justice spokesperson declined to comment.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5621782-jim-justice-taxes-doj-suit/
This Jim Justice tax thing has been kept out of the mainstream and bubbling under the surface for some time (I had seen some local WV story, I think about a Greenbriar problem, that ended up outside of LBN, in the past month or so)... until suddenly DOJ mysteriously "sued" him and his wife, and then they decided to settle.
Now replace "Jim Justice"'s name with "Adam Schiff"'s and imagine the media's hyperventilation and 24/7 coverage if the same set of circumstances occurred.
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