Posted on 04/16/2021 10:56:14 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
The Justice Department on Friday sued Roger Stone, accusing Stone and his wife, Nydia, of owing nearly $2 million in unpaid federal income taxes and fees.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, says the couple underpaid their income taxes by $1,590,361 from 2007 to 2011. It further says Stone, 68, did not pay his full tax bill in 2018, coming up $407,036 short. The couple, the suit alleges, used a commercial entity to "shield their personal income from enforced collection and fund a lavish lifestyle despite owing nearly $2 million in unpaid taxes, interest and penalties."
Stone, a well-known Republican political operative and a friend of the former president, briefly served as a campaign adviser to Trump.
"This is yet another example of the Democrats weaponizing the Justice Department in violation of the rule of law," Stone said.
Stone was on his way to federal prison in July 2020 when then-president Trump commuted his sentence. Stone was sentenced earlier that year to serve 40 months in prison for lying to Congress about his efforts to connect with WikiLeaks in hopes of digging up dirt on Trump's 2016 rival, Hillary Clinton. The lead prosecutor in the case said Stone had lied because the "truth looked bad for Donald Trump." Stone was convicted of all seven counts against him.
Stone said Friday, "This case against me is motivated by blood lust and liberal hysteria over the fact that President Trump saw the clear corruption of my trial and had the strength and the courage to correct this injustice by issuing me a grant of clemency."
The Stones deposited more than $1 million in accounts belonging to a commercial entity, Drake Ventures, instead of personal accounts, thereby frustrating collection efforts, the government said in the filing.
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I wonder if it’s a lie?
Or they can indict anyone who politically opposes them
Al sharpton us giggling...
They run out of women to backshoot and girlchildren to burn?
The DOJ has standing to collect taxes?
I believe they do that all the time. Michael Flynn, for one. I am wondering what Solzhenitsyn would be saying?
If only he had setup a foundation, while working for the government, taken foreign “contributions” from nations who he oversaw, and then convert the money to personal use, then the DoJ would have averted its attention.
His best friend Al Sharpton can’t help him?
Probably.
There is no penalty in the government charging you with whatever crimes it wants.
He’s being punished through the process.
The regulations of the IRS are constructed in such a way that almost everybody is in violation of any of a number of sometimes totally contradictory directives, the enforcement of which is left up to the IRS agent’s own discretion. The attorneys that prepared the returns may have taken one interpretation, but the reviewing agent takes another, and with the force of law on the side of IRS (guilty until proven innocent), it can take years and exorbitant amounts of money to resolve the disparity.
And Al Sharpton who owes 3 1/2 million and hasn’t paid it ??
It’s “lawfare.”
It costs nothing for the corrupt DOJ bullies to charge Stone. It will cost Stone his las cent to defend himself, leaving him utterly broke and homeless at age 70-ish.
And most of all, it’s an object lesson and warning to enemies of the deep state: don’t oppose us, or else.
Do you happen to know whether or not they sent an armored brigade to serve him this time?
Correct. It’s a method of attack the oligarchs shamelessly use against their enemies.
2006-2011.
So the keep your tax records for ten years is bad advice if one is a Republican.
It’s time for Roger to come out as a self-identified native American LBGTQHAIYUJSITAY Marxist and put an end to all this.
Hunter Biden
Epstein
Al Sharpton
Any of those names mean anything to the IRS???
Another example of the Democrats weaponizing the Justice Department.
Swamp Inc.
Swamp to Americans:
“Don’t ever do that again.”
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