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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 08:38 PM
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Oh Shite Ensign is digging his grave big time
His parents paid Hampton severance - WTF????????????????????

Nice discussion on Rachel.
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Hepburn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 08:40 PM
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1. I am listening to that....
...and my jaw hit the top of my computer desk!

Unbelievable!
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 08:42 PM
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2. He has outspun the spin
:rofl:
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Hepburn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 08:43 PM
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3. LOL....
...and fucked his parents totally up with the IRS. Hello taxes ~~ it was NOT a gift!
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 08:44 PM
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6. And that's the worst part of this story
I can imagine the parents discussing this clusterfuck of a son. Ah well they socialized him really well.
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 08:48 PM
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12. It gets better -
that's not his biological father. It's his stepfather, who, I believe, adopted the boy.

Ah, they must be SO proud ....................
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 08:50 PM
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16. Well he's taking them down with him
Couldn't happen to a nicer group.
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Hepburn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 08:50 PM
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17. Actually, if I were the adoptive parent of that idiot, I would at least....
...have the comforting thought that my DNA was not to blame.

Same comfort ~~ but it would be something!
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Hepburn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 08:49 PM
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14. They should have named him....
...Eddie Haskell!

What a total asswipe!
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 08:44 PM
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4. Are you referring to the $96K?
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 08:45 PM
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7. Yep -
Rachel just did a great interview with a LV reporter who's been uncovering all sorts of stuff about how the parents' payoff was characterized, and now the IRS is gonna get involved.

Absolute death, coming up!
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 08:49 PM
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15. Here's a recent photograph of Ensign...
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 09:00 PM
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22. You certainly have not
overstated it.

Isn't this a hell of a time? We're not doing anything except moving forward, and the GOPigs are doing all the things - by themselves - that we would have done to them if we'd taken the time, had the HAZMAT suits, and lost the bet........................
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 09:14 PM
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26. It's stunning how thoroughly stupid they are. This. Sanford. Hassling Sotomayor. It's all good.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 08:45 PM
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8. Yep
WTF???
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 08:47 PM
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10. If the parents claimed that money as "gifts"
for the IRS, but the recipients claimed them as "income," as in severance pay - well, there's some dissonance there, and the IRS just HATES dissonance. Plus, the ethics rules of the Senate go completely insane with a set of facts such as this.

Don't forget that it was, ultimately, the IRS who nailed Al Capone.............................
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 09:02 PM
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23. So the recipients were legal, but Ensign's parents were not???
Am I even close?
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 09:03 PM
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24. The determination of "legal"
isn't yet called up, because the fact patterns - the two stories - have to be investigated.

THAT's the messy part.

Yeah, you've got it.....................
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-18-09 03:19 AM
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28. Thank you!
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 08:44 PM
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5. First, it was a gift -
but not reported by the giftee as such.

Now it's severance, and, oh, the troubles that will cause!!!

Screw with anyone, but NOT WITH THE IRS! Not EVER!

I wonder if that $96,000.00 is coming out of his allowance......................................
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 08:46 PM
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9. Yep but it may cause even more trouble for the
casino owning father.
I'm sure they've been buying his way out of trouble for decades.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 08:48 PM
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11. Explain to me how severance is IRS trouble.
I am painfully ignorant of this kind of detail.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 08:51 PM
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19. Read Tangerine LaBamba's response at #10 n/t
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 08:53 PM
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21. The parents can give $12,000 to an individual
in a fiscal year without that individual incurring any tax liability, provided it meets the IRS requirements for "gift."

The people who got this money from Ensign's parents apparently received them as "severance pay," which made them taxable income, and that's a flag for the IRS - the two fact patterns don't match up.

So, the question arises - why did the parents give the money to those people, and that triggers an investigation which could, conceivably, uncover criminal activity.

Does that help?
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 09:13 PM
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25. The IRS can be expected to administer a good ass-kicking.
As I understand it, each parent gave $12,000 "gifts" to two of the mistress' children and to her and her husband -- eight "gifts" totaling $96,000. Are they claiming the entire $96K was severance funds? If so, this reeeeeally looks fishy. The IRS does not take kindly to tax fraud.
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 09:28 PM
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27. The whole thing couldn't have been severance -
since only one kid worked for them.

So, conceivably, one of the kids seriously got a valid gift of $24,000.

(Loud laughter)

My parents' friends used to give me ice cream money - like a dollar, if I was really lucky.

My parents had all the wrong friends.........................
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Hepburn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 08:52 PM
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20. About now, I would say that the $96K is gonna....
...come out of his ass! :rofl:

Can you believe the cluster fuck!
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 08:49 PM
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13. See they don't need our help at all
All we have to do is stand back and let them implode.:beer: :popcorn:
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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 08:50 PM
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18. Jon and Kate plus 8 1/3 to 25.
Edited on Thu Jul-16-09 08:57 PM by billyoc
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