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Eddie Kahn +4 other ARL employees indicted!

JJ MacNab
September 11, 2008 17:23

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, September 10, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV TAX Five Promoters of Tax Defiance Scheme Indicted for Tax Fraud WASHINGTON- Five promoters of Florida-based tax defier organization, American Rights Litigators/Guiding Light of God Ministries (ARL), were charged with selling...

Snipes gets a big break

JJ MacNab
May 23, 2008 13:19

The judge has ruled that Snipes can remain out on bail pending appeal, and the appellate process can take years to complete. What the judge said: Obviously, having denied the Defendants’ motions asserting the issues he intends to raise on appeal, the Court is dubious as to the...

Snipes’ prison date: June 3rd

JJ MacNab
May 22, 2008 16:06

My apologies for not posting more regularly,  but I’ve been busy on my other blog (Bombs, Taxes, and Red Crayons) covering two tax denier related trials. After sentencing on April 24th, Snipes’ lawyers (not the ones who handled his trial — Snipes fired them a few weeks ago) filed...

Wesley Snipes sentenced to 36 months in prison

JJ MacNab
April 24, 2008 22:04

Wesley Snipes was sentenced late this afternoon, following an all-day hearing, to 36 months in federal prison. Eddie Ray Kahn received 120 months, and Douglas Rosile was sentenced to 54 months.  This will be Kahn’s second stay in federal prison on tax related charges.Wesley Snipes was...

Tomorrow is the big day

JJ MacNab
April 23, 2008 21:41

In their sentencing memos, the government has asked that the judge give the three defendants some fairly stiff sentences (click on their names to read the applicable filing by the prosecutors): Wesley Snipes - 36 months in prison plus a fine of at least $5,000,000 Eddie Kahn - 120 months in...

Snipes’ Sentencing Memorandum

JJ MacNab
April 14, 2008 22:58

The prosecutors submitted their sentencing memorandum today. They have asked the judge to sentence Snipes to 36 months in prison with a fine of at least $5 million, and let’s just say they didn’t mince words. For nearly a decade, Snipes has engaged in a campaign of criminal tax conduct...

Was Snipes really just asking the IRS innocent questions?

JJ MacNab
February 12, 2008 18:04

Or does he just have a problem paying taxes?  Last week, a New Jersey newspaper reported that Snipes’ outstanding tax liens on his Alpine, NJ home in the amount of $67,108 had been sold at auction in December.  If he doesn’t pay this amount off in the next two years, the new owner of...

Sentencing is scheduled for April 24th

JJ MacNab
February 07, 2008 19:32

The court docket was updated this morning to reflect the new sentencing date for Kahn, Rosile, and Snipes. NOTICE OF HEARING as to Eddie Ray Kahn, Douglas P. Rosile, Wesley Trent Snipes. Sentencing set for 4/24/2008 at 09:30AM in Courtroom 1 before Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges. Defendants Douglas P....

Voluntary Compliance

JJ MacNab
February 05, 2008 15:56

KCUF Media wrote: The IRS line about “voluntary compliance” is a blatant lie. The “voluntary compliance” rhetoric from the IRS is weaselly at best, and deserves to be thrown out of court on that basis, at the very least. Sigh.  Considering the IRS, Congress, the...

Changing the “willful failure to file” tax returns law

JJ MacNab
February 04, 2008 19:06

Good Guy wrote: I’m glad those scum promoters got convicted on the felony counts. It’s now time for congress to set a dollar amount for elevation of failure to file as a felony. What this verdict says is “if you are going to owe millions in taxes, don’t file- it’s just...