Posted on 03/09/2006 4:22:15 PM PST by abb
State: Jacko not paying wages, insurance. Whither the llamas?
MARCH 9--Citing Michael Jackson's failure to cover his employees with required insurance, California state labor officials today effectively closed the singer's Neverland Ranch and fined him $69,000, The Smoking Gun has learned. Investigators with the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement arrived at the sprawling Los Olivos estate this morning and served the below work stoppage order on a security guard. Additionally, in a March 7 letter, the state apprised Jackson that more than 30 workers have filed unpaid wage claims against him and that he owes those employees more than $300,000, as well as penalties in excess of $100,000. The state's demand letter contends that Jackson has been welshing on his employees since last December. Today's state "stop order" bars Jackson from "using any employee labor" until he secures required workers' compensation insurance and warns that if Jackson fails to abide by the enforced work stoppage he could be charged with a criminal misdemeanor. In addition to being fined $1000 apiece for 69 workers, Jackson is also liable for up to 10 days pay for those employees who now are no longer allowed to report to Neverland for work. While it is unclear how many workers are still employed at the cash-strapped Jackson's ranch, state officials used the 69 worker figure based on Neverland's most recent quarterly tax report, filed in December 2005, which said that 69 employees worked there. According to state records, Jackson's workers' comp policy expired about two months ago. The 47-year-old singer has been out of the country since shortly after his June 2005 acquittal on child molestation charges. Since then, he has been spotted in Bahrain and, more recently, London. (3 pages)
Hey, lay down with the dogs and you get fleas...
I hope somebody feeds the animals, or that Animal Control takes them so they get fed.
Great minds think alike.
the workers have been emptying out the place the last few weeks..look for a ton of MJ stuff to show up on Ebay soon
HA HA HA HA...... will the bankers finally take over MJ's interest in the Beatles song catalog?? I think that was supposed to be worth quite a large pile of money..... is the pedophile finally going to lose everything or does he still have the right liberal Democrats pimping for him??
Garage sale? I wonder if the place has not been gone through and emptied out by the employees already right down to the door knobs.
If your Male boss moves to a Muslim Country and is wearing a Female Burka around public for the past 6mos or so and you have not been paid a check chances are he is not intending on sending one soon via Western Union.
One of his blood brothers is publishing a book that says they saw him holding one of there kids in his lap (oddly) once and they never let the kids sit alone with Uncle Mikey again. Basically he says he knows the guy is a pedo despite supporting him with at trial.
He feared MJ would commit suicide.
Sad that he ended up out of control with mental illness.
Now I know how the Elvis teen female fans now grown woman felt about his drug and booze loss of life.
He's lost it all....the reason for the delay is that stuff is being worked out with the IRS and the Cal Income Tax people..the forclosure on the Beatles catalogue is still a sale, and MJ has a HUGE gain, and he owes BIG capital gains taxes..they alre3ady have liens on everything, including Neverland, which is why he walked away from it..there is NO equity left..
All his money is now going to Farrakhan.
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