California lieutenant governor's family business owes U.S. more than $100,000 in taxes

Los Angeles Times ^ | July 24, 2010 | By Jack Dolan and Shane Goldmacher

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The IRS files a lien against Abel Maldonado's Santa Barbara County farm. It is the ninth time since 1992 that tax collectors have filed liens against him to compel payments totaling more than $240,000.

Federal officials filed the lien April 13, two weeks before Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger swore in Maldonado as the state's second highest-ranking public official.

The single-page IRS lien indicates that Maldonado owes the government $111,146 for underpaying a category of taxes that include Social Security, Medicare and federal withholding contributions for employees on his 6,000-acre farm in Santa Barbara County.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

"Heads on a Stick".

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well, looks like he has an ongoing quarrel with the taxman.

[Kozak]

Only the Plebs need to pay taxes, our Patrician class need not be concerned with such petty details.

[Liz]

The IRS filed a lien against Cali Lieut Gov Abel Maldonado---- ninth time since 1992----to compel payments totaling more than $240,000. Maldonado owes the US government for underpaying Social Security, Medicare and federal withholding for (cough) employees on his 6,000-acre farm in Santa Barbara County....

Hmmmmmm...........looks like Abel must be wire-transferring to Mexico as fast as a cuckaracha on a hot taco plate.

Heck, what's a guy to do? Ever since the US invasion began, billions of US dollars are going to Mexico.

Price tags on those Acapulco beachfront retirement properties are downright hellish.

[ed34222]

The taxman, ya, the tax ma-an ....

[ruination]

I bet he’ll end up going down in flames like his Democrat doppelganger, Fabian Nunez.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Did Schwarzeneggar swear IN Maldonado? Or did he swear AT Maldonado?

[stephenjohnbanker]

He better refi it or sell it, or the IRS will sell it for him
for 50 cents on the dollar.

[Liz]

Maldonado better refi it or sell, or the IRS will sell it for him......for 50 cents on the dollar.

Looks like Abel needs to float a loan from his friendly neighborhood drug lord.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” Looks like Abel needs to float a loan from his friendly neighborhood drug lord. “

No shortage of them in Santa Barbara.

[Liz]

Betcha those friendly neighborhood drug lords in border states have plenty of US pols on their payrolls.

[stephenjohnbanker]

I’m thinking the Sheriff of Pinal County might be one of them.

[Liz]

O-o-o-o-o. That’s bad.

[NormsRevenge]

Suck it up, Ca Gop !!

You got aRnie’d..

[calcowgirl]

Arnie and Abel are sweet on each other. No swearing at each other.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Somehow this seems to me to presage Ahhhnold’s decline. I hope and pray it’s not so.