Posted on 02/02/2009 2:24:48 AM PST by Liz
--SNIP.......Rep Rangel (D-Harlem) admitted on the floor of the House that he had for years failed to pay tax on rental income from his Caribbean resort property....He apologized for this "oversight" and agreed to pay his back taxes - but paid no interest or penalties. Secy Geithner admitted in confirmation hearings he had for years failed to pay taxes on his income from the IMF, even though the IMF sent him checks and instructions to pay those taxes. He also called this an "oversight," has paid no penalties and faces no charges.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The Cadillac and driver were never part of Daschle's official compensation package at InterMedia but Mr. Daschle -- who as Senate majority leader enjoyed the use of a car and driver at taxpayer expense -- didn't declare their services on his income taxes, as tax laws require.
During the vetting process to become HHS secretary, Daschle corrected the tax violation, voluntarily paying $101,943 in back taxes plus interest, working with his accountant to amend his tax returns for 2005 through 2007. Daschle reimbursed the IRS $31,462 in taxes and interest for tax year 2005; $35,546 for 2006; and $34,935, for 2007. The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., has called his colleagues for a private meeting at 5 p.m. ET Monday to discuss these complications surrounding Daschle's nomination. (Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com
TALLYING UP THE RANGEL SWINDLE
(1) Democratic chair of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee Rangel took a "homestead" tax deduction meant for year-round DC residents - though he legally resides in New York.
(2) Rangel paid no taxes on his luxe property in the Caribbean;
(3) Has four rent-stabilized apartments (one is a campaign office);
(4) Improperly stored his car in a House parking garage;
(5) The NY Times reported oil-drilling businessman Eugene Isenberg made a $1 million pledge toward building The Rangel School for Public Service at City College of New York. Rangel later preserved a controversial offshore tax loophole that saved millions for Isenberg's company. The Isenberg-Nabors deal is, potentially, far more serious: It reeks of a quid pro quo between Rangel's official duties and fund-raising for his personal project. The Times reported that Rangel held meetings the same day, at the same hotel, with Isenberg to discuss the CCNY project and then with Nabors' chief lobbyist on the tax loophole.
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Rangel's multiple ties with tax-exempt foundations smell to high heaven. Rangel’s pricey real estate deals are entwined with his financial connections to several tax-exempt entities.
The IRS says the biggest potential for IRS fraud are tax-exempt non-profits doing deals with other tax-exempt non-profits----all posing as do-gooder "foundations" and “charities.” The NY Post reports at least three tax-exempt entities connected to Rangel‘s finances:
(1) The Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service (Rangel co-opted $2 million via Capitol Hill allocations, plus another $700,000 from Dept of HUD),
(2) The NY Carib News Foundation (organized financing for Rangel’s island-hopping luxe Caribbean trips),
(3) The Ann S. Kheel Charitable Trust---supposedly aids "disadvantaged neighborhoods" gave $440,000 to The Charles B. Rangel Center (the largest single donation in the charity's 4-year history). Theodore Kheel, Esq, VP of Grupo Punta Cana Operating Company, (mortgage holder on Rangel’s luxury villa), donated $17,000 to Rangel's congressional campaigns and $52,000 to a Rangel-run political action committee since 1990, federal filings show. (Ann Kheel is his late wife).
(4) The "tax-exempt Carib News Foundation" subsidized Rangel’s trips to luxury island resorts---perfect places to hide money from the taxman. The published list of known money-laundering havens includes Panama, the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, the Cook Islands, Dominica, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Panama, the Philippines, St. Kitts, Israel, and the Grenadines. Suspected tax havens include Cyprus, Gibraltar, Monaco, and Antigua.
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REID: "Those guys better remember who kept them out of prison, Nancy"
PELOSI " Harry, I hope your earmark is big enough so that poor
Charlie won't have to use his own money to pay his taxes."
REID "Don't worry Nancy, it's big enough. And with the rest, we can all buy
a villa in the Dominican Republic, next door to Charlie......thanks to US taxpayers."
On June 10, 2003, the New York Times reported on a $20 billion Pentagon plan to lease air refueling tankers from the Boeing Company. The newspaper cited that liberal and conservative groups opposed to the arrangement called it a "sweetheart deal" that must be approved by Congress.
The article pointed out that Boeing has hired lobbyist Linda Daschle, the wife of the Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) to represent the company.
South Dakota's largest newspaper, the Argus Leader, is not reporting the story. In fact, the Argus Leader never prints a story about the lobbying of Linda Daschle. In recent weeks, Executive Editor Randell Beck has been quoted as saying that this is because the Argus Leader doesn't report on the wives of candidates.
The Argus Leader did write a 1995 editorial critical of Marianne Gingrich, wife of the House Speaker, Republican Newt Gingrich, for taking a position with Israel Export Development Company. The newspaper wrote, "The spouses of U.S. leaders should be held to a high standard: Not only should they avoid impropriety, they should avoid all appearances of impropriety."
In 1990, the South Dakota newspaper published a thirty-six paragraph article about Harriet Pressler, wife of Republican Sen. Larry Pressler that suggested the senator had used his office to help his wife's real estate business. By contrast, the recent purchase of a $2 million Washington, DC home by Sen. Daschle and his wife is mentioned by the paper in only five sentences.
Last week, South Dakota businessman Neal Tapio accused the Argus Leader and its political reporter David Kranz of covering up a long association between the senator and Kranz that goes back 30 years. The Argus Leader has refused to acknowledge or disclose that relationship. Tapio implies that the newspaper's reporting has been skewed in favor of the powerful senator and against his critics.
Linda Daschle's lobbying has long been a source of potential conflict of interest issues. Her firm's clients include American Airlines, a recent recipient of billions in taxpayer funds to keep the company in business. Another client, L-3 International, a manufacturer of baggage screening equipment, won a lucrative contract from the Federal Aviation Administration in 2000.
Mrs. Daschle had been an official with the FAA before joining the lobbying firm of Baker, Donelson, Bearman and Caldwell.
None of this makes it to the pages of the Argus Leader. Even the Daschles' refusal to make their income tax returns public didn't get a notice from the same publication that aggressively pursued Harriet Pressler a decade ago.
When Kranz was with the Mitchell Daily Republic in 1982, he wrote an opinion piece that praised Mr. Daschle for releasing his income tax returns and criticized his opponent Clint Roberts for not doing so. Kranz wrote, "We believe it is the obligation of a candidate to produce the financial health as represented in his federal income tax returns."
Kranz has yet to call for the release of the Daschles' returns that would reveal a combined income estimated at $6 million.
"Believe your eyes and what you saw,
for every Democrat is far 'above the law'?"
The Rangel School for Public Service
This made me laugh, for some reason.
Here' Obama's COS, Rahm Emanuel, pledging allegiance to the USA, on inaguration day.
And Cong Rangel laughs all the way to the bank. Rangel co-opted $2 million via Capitol Hill allocations, plus another $700,000 from Dept of HUD for this obscenity.
Cong Rangel’s contempt for taxpayers was evident in his (1) pricey real estate deals, (2) his assertion that he "forgot" to pay taxes, and, (3) his financial connection to several tax-exempt entities.
KEEP IN MIND the IRS reports that some tax-exempt foundations and non-profits could be major fraud machines.
THE BIGGEST TAX EXEMPT FRAUDS ARE FOUNDATIONS WRITING CHECKS TO OTHER FOUNDATIONS---The IRS has determined that the biggest potential for IRS fraud are tax-exempt non-profits doing deals with other tax-exempt non-profits----all posing as do-gooder "foundations" and “charities” ---that shield tax evasion, money laundering scams.
CASE IN POINT The Ann S. Kheel Charitable Trust---supposedly aids disadvantaged neighborhoods----gave $440,000 to The Charles B. Rangel Center - the largest single donation in its 4-year history. Theordore Kheel, Esq, VP of Grupo Punta Cana Operating Company, is the mortgage holder on Rangel’s villa, and also donated $17,000 to Rangel's congressional campaigns and $52,000 to a Rangel-run political action committee since 1990, federal filings show. (Ann Kheel is his late wife).
There's a zillion ways these tax-exempts can defraud the IRS, the FEC, and evade SEC and US banking laws. Taxpayers should demand an investigation.
Suspected tax fraud and tax law violations can be reported to IRS TOLL-FREE 1-800-829-0433 (You may remain anonymous).
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"With his leadership, the Korean people defeated the Japanese colonial occupation and soon after brought about the first defeat of the U.S. imperialist military machine. ...
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With comradely solidarity, Sam Marcy Chairperson, Workers World Party" (1994):
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Photo of Charlie Rangel at the podium of a March 19th, 2005 Workers World Party/Troops Out Now rally in Harlem, New York. The occasion marked the 2nd anniversary of the start of the Iraq war. The photo comes from the Workers World Party website.
Also appearing at this "peace" rally with the demonRat Charlie Rangel, now chairman of The House Ways and Means Committee, were Saddam Hussein lawyer, Ramsey Clark and convicted terrorist enabler/attorney, Lynne Stewart. Clark, with Workers World Party, started up that other 'peace' group, A.N.S.W.E.R. Clark also heads the International Action Center and was actually once Attorney General of the United States under democrat LBJ.
Source for the photos: Workers World Party website (workers.org)
http://www.workers.org/march19/index2.html
1 - Red Rangel
2 - Tim Turbotax
3 - Tommie Daschlimo
By now many still do not know that "Present" Hussein Barackbarry's mansion (and the added strip of adjoing land) in Chi-Town is actually titled (for some undisclosed reason) in the name of convicted Antoin "Tony The Syrian" Rezco's attorney William Miceli - and the real estate transaction was handled by the wife impeached and convicted ex-Governor of Illinois Rod "The Hair" Bloggonois....
Question: Did "Present" Hussein Barackbarry deliberately with criminal malice aforthought illegally deduct mortgage interest on his federal income tax returns on a Hyde Park mansion that he only rents or leases from Antoin "Tony The Syrian" Rezco's attorney William Miceli?
I have had about enough of this nonsense about Geithner bing absolutely necessary to the success of the nation. Now we are hearing that the Senate has no choice but to confirm Daschle because we absolutely need him to push through universal health care.
I'm sorry. If you cannot even be bothered to pay your taxes, why should anybody assume that you are committed enough to the welfare of the nation to be trusted with the reins of power?
DeGaulle had it right. None of us is indispensible. The World can get along quite well without us, if need be.
I wonder how many of us could “oversight” our taxes?
And penalties can be up to 25% per year, and I believe penalties can be assessed on the past due interest, as well as the past due tax. That can double and triple the amount owed in just two or three years. This is an absolute outrage, but so many of our politicians and bureaucrats are shameless cheats that it's unlikely anything else will be done.
IT'S GETTING CROWDED AT RANGLE'S BEACH
Evading taxes is surely just "the tip of the iceberg"---shows a devious criminal mind at work.
Falsifying official govt documents to get tax rebates---AND unauthorized bonuses, several pensions, higher salaries, and other govt goodies is a felony---incurs charges of 1st-degree tampering with public records, 1st-degree offering of a false instrument for filing, 4th-degree grand larceny, and 1st-degree falsifying of official records.
L/E needs to see listings of "authorized" govt salaries and compare them with the checks they actually cash (or amounts they direct-deposit to bank accounts).
L/E could be looking at charges of Official Misconduct, Fraudulent Salaries, Collusion, and Theft By Deception. If these people used wire transfers, the US Mails, electronic or computers means to facilitate government fraud, additional charges could ensue.
L/E must examine the legal parameters of prosecutable crimes including: (1) making false statements, (2) obstruction and delaying justice, and, (3) obstruction of official proceedings by withholding information.
Govt insiders may have colluded (1) to create phony financial documents to justify pensions, salaries and bonuses (ala Fannie Mae), and, (2) may have fraudulently used tax-exempt bond revenue for personal enrichment. And may be involved in fraudulent use of govt funds and tax-exempt bond revenue could (and should) be prosecuted for (a) fiduciary negligence, and, (b) government fraud.
Here's how to contact the IRS Criminal Investigations Division to report suspected tax fraud and tax law violations. Tel toll-free 1-800-829-0433 (you may remain anonymous).
The IRS is interested in publicly-funded practices, including: (1) failure to publicly disclose uses of government monies; (2) whether accounting fraud and tax evasion is taking place, (3) whether the compensation of appointees/employees is excessive, and, (4) whether questionable compensation practices may be fraudulently constructed to evade the IRS, the SEC and US banking laws.
The IRS is also interested in the way govt agencies construct insider transactions including: (1) loans, (2) sale, (3) exchange, or, (4) leasing of govt property to insiders, and, the way government employees report (5) "excess benefit transactions," (6) executive pay, and, (7) uses of tax-exempt bond revenue.
Heheh----Little Tommy's warming his sorry *** on the beach, too,
Good for the Goose, Good for the Gander.
Pray for America and Our Troops
Tommy and Rahm do a pas de deus.
As Orwell wrote: some Animals are more equal than others.
ANIMAL FARM REDUX These government obscenities make us look more like Animal Farm----rather than a democracy. Animals with government positions get perks privileges and free passes-----at the expense of peon taxpayers.
The pig-like Animals squeal with delight while decimating the "rule of law"----- the thing that distinguishes America from Third World hellholes.
The Animals declare our laws to be meaningless.
These guys were toilet-trained at The School of Whatever Works For Me----but they still make smelly messes that peon taxpayers are forced to clean up.
CREDIT LINE I extrapolated FReeper justmythoughts reference to the state of the state as "Animal Farm."
Another thing that was made even more obvious during recent months was the fact that the old concept of "conflict of interest" is just about a thing of the past. We see the large, and 'legal" campaign contributions made by financial institutions to the senators and representatives who sit on the committees that supposedly regulate those same industries. Dodd and Frank and their role in the sub prime crisis, and their campaign contributions and the odd sweetheart financing deal. Hillary's arrogant attitude concerning Slick's solicitation of contributions for his organization from foreigners, etc.
A conflict of interest now is anything that conflicts with a politicians desire to cash in on his or her position.
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