Tax Cheat Escapes $100 Million Repayment

Source: Associated Press

Tax Cheat Escapes $100 Million Repayment
By MATT APUZZO
Associated Press Writer

March 27, 2007, 6:54 PM EDT

WASHINGTON -- Poorly written Justice Department documents cost the
federal government more than $100 million in what was supposed to have
been the crowning moment of the biggest tax prosecution ever.

Walter Anderson, the telecommunications entrepreneur who admitted
hiding hundreds of millions of dollars from the IRS and District of Columbia
tax collectors, was sentenced Tuesday to nine years in prison and ordered
to repay about $23 million to the city.

But U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman said he couldn't order Anderson
to repay the federal government $100 million to $175 million because the
Justice Department's binding plea agreement with Anderson listed the
wrong statute.

Friedman said he could have worked around that problem by ordering
Anderson to repay the money as part of his probation. But prosecutors
omitted any discussion of probation -- a common element of plea deals
-- from Anderson's paperwork.

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Read more: http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-tax-scofflaw,0,3423244.story

go watch it.

www.freedomtofascism.com

Especially after learning about the pressure put on the US Atty negotiating the latest issues involving the tobacco settlement.

now... how do you suppose the accountability party is going to handle this 9 digit mistake?

Would a small time drug dealer get off if the wrong statute was cited?

permanently

to get that little favor. It reminds me of Big Oil not having to pay royalties on federal leases because someone conveniently left it out of their new contract.

accident my ass.

Yep, this is another case of IOKIYAR, where a Republic Party Member is let off the hook!

Is ANderson a repub? Link?

The US Attorney in charge of prosecuting this case must have been told to lay off or get fired, and it might be one of those reasons for Monica Goodling to take the 5th .

Some interesting and pertinent comments about our Mr Anderson and how the super rich are able to skirt filing and paying thanks to Bush policies that have cut IRS auditing and enforcement.

http://www.curevents.com/vb/showthread.php?t=71987

Or other cases where poor or outcast persons are in the dock; a clerical error to the benefit of a wealthy defendant is dispositive.

can be amended for that. I am not an attorney and that is not legal advise. Just an I think that is so.

don't ya think?

Source: Dallas Morning News

Poorly written Justice Department documents cost the federal government more than $100 million in what was supposed to have been the crowning moment of the biggest tax prosecution ever.

Walter Anderson, the telecommunications entrepreneur who admitted hiding hundreds of millions of dollars from the IRS and District of Columbia tax collectors, was sentenced Tuesday to nine years in prison and ordered to repay about $23 million to the city.

But U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman said he couldn't order Anderson to repay the federal government $100 million to $175 million because the Justice Department's binding plea agreement with Anderson listed the wrong statute.

Friedman said he could have worked around that problem by ordering Anderson to repay the money as part of his probation. But prosecutors omitted any discussion of probation – a common element of plea deals – from Anderson's paperwork.



Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/washington/stories/032807dnnattaxcheat.2885d8c.html

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Biggest tax fraud case ever and DOJ doesn't dot i's and cross t's??

Bush and the Repug party... Just guessing.

The only contributions that Anderson is listed as making on opensecrets.org are to a PAC called "Voters for Choice/Friends of Family Planning".

While this seems to be a particularly poorly managed PAC (donating only a small percentage of the money it raises to political candidates), Opensecrets.org indicates that virtually 100% of the PAC's contributions over the past 5 election cycles have gone to Democratic candidates.

The DOJ wasn't incompetent under Clinton.

The Just Us department just plays GOP footsie.

Just like the "mishandling" of Prosecutorgate. Just like the "heckuva job" on Katrina response. It's not some anomalous 'mistake,' it's just par for an incompetent course.

Looks like someone in the Justice Department is in line for a Medal of Freedom. ;-)

Yet, he got off easy.


BTW, the judge that made the ruling was appointed in 1994.

Take off the tinfoil. This was a major fuck-up by an incompetent DOJ, not some conspiratorial move.

:mad: Bastards.

You still want to trade places with him?

... that's about 20%. I'd have been ok with the same arrangement, or approximately $200, even though they are/were entirely in the wrong.

I provided them documentation to support my deduction - a freakin' CHILD SUPPORT ORDER signed by a family court judge in WI - and they STILL wouldn't back down.


So, thank you for your opinion but your snideness is misinformed and inappropriate.

What exactly is "misinformed" about my opinion?

Most convicted criminals do half the time. And he'll probably
get a reduction for good behavior. My bet is he'll get out in
3-3 1/2 years.