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INCOME TAXES ILLEGAL? PROMOTERS RUN A RACKET WITHIN A TAX SCAM
TAX PROTESTOR LEADERS MAKE MEGA $$$ OFF SELLING B.S.! THEN YOU GO TO JAIL!
A recent case filed in federal court name Sharon Kukhahn of Tacoma Wa., who allegedly sold a scam to misidentify the taxpayer as operating an enterprise subject to federal excise tax, such as firearms manufacturing. According to the complaint, Kukhahn charged single taxpayers between $1,750 and $1,900 and charges married taxpayers between $2,450 and $3,195 for her bogus service. Editors Note: This is absolutely, totally completely insane! A Firearms Manufacturer!! You can trust your editor who is an ex-gunsmith who was legally licensed.... this the last way you would want to dodge taxes! The very last! Why? Guess who inspects Firearms Manufacturers? Here read this from the The ATF who is in charge of guns!
The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) is a tax-collecting, enforcement and regulatory arm of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In common with all other members of the executive branch, ATF's responsibility is established by congressional action. ATF cannot enact a law, nor can it amend the law. Charged as it is with fiscal oversight of some of the most controversial topics in Western civilization, ATF strives to maintain professional neutrality while giving a 35-to-1 return on every dollar it spends. ATF has the best cost-to-collection ratio in the federal family.
Editor Continuing rant: See what I mean? This woman was absolutely ....ahhhh... putting people in the lions mouth... something beyond description!
The last six years I have tried to help folks who got suckered by Tax Evasion Guru's. How! Giving evidence to prisons and probation officers to try to help get innocent folks out of jail. Why? Because these folks (innocents) were scammed. Doctors, mothers, nice folk that are in jail and lost their house, cars and children because of fines and prison. Why do this? Because I believe the U.S. Government should move faster to shut down these scumbag tax evasion promoters and put them in jail - FAST!
The people selling this stuff sometimes believe it themselves! That makes it double dangerous, like Pinnacle Quest International that just got shut down (see other articles upper right hand links). The Feds got the name of every one they sold training to. You know what? THERE ARE GOING TO BE INNOCENTS GOING TO JAIL FOR TAX EVASION! Why? They tried to apply that junk information to their own taxes. I know I have tried to help people hurt and going to jail.
Network Marketers being sweet independent souls by nature are suckers for this BS. Sandy BotkinS CPA, JD and your editor fought this.... this.... crapola in the middle 90’s and it coming back again! Global Prosperity put bullet holes in my car. A big problem is we can’t search the tax records of most of these Scammers making money off of selling you information that income taxes are not legal. If we could we’d would find out that most of them do pay taxes. They are just suckering others into going to jail so they can make money off of tapes, CD, books, and worthless legal fees! YOU ARE BEING SCAMMED AND IT CAN PUT YOU IN JAIL!
If you want to tax protest the MLM WatchDog’s advice is move outside the U.S. Why? It will cost you at least $500,000 in legal fees to get where wealth airline pilot, Mr. Cheek did before the Supreme Court! Other countries like in South America for that, you could probably buy off a high court! THE U.S. NO WAY!
THE SUPREME COURT HAS THE FINAL SAY PERIOD ZIP ZERO
A BIG BRICK WALL for tax protesters is found in the Cheek Doctrine (Supreme Court decided January 8th 1991 with respect to arguments about "constitutionality." Under the Doctrine, the mistaken belief that the Sixteenth Amendment was not properly ratified and the mistaken belief that the Federal income tax is otherwise unconstitutional are not treated as beliefs that one is not violating the "tax law" — i.e., these errors are not treated as being caused by the "complexity of the tax law."
In the Cheek case the Supreme Court stated on Jan 8th 1991: Claims that some of the provisions of the tax code are unconstitutional are submissions of a different order. They do not arise from innocent mistakes caused by the complexity of the Internal Revenue Code. Rather, they reveal full knowledge of the provisions at issue and a studied conclusion, however wrong, that those provisions are invalid and unenforceable. Thus, in this case, Cheek paid his taxes for years, but after attending various seminars and based on his own study, he concluded that the income tax laws could not constitutionally require him to pay a tax. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheek_v._United_States
The Court continued: As we see it, he is in no position to claim that his good-faith belief about the validity of the Internal Revenue Code negates willfulness or provides a defense to criminal prosecution under 7201 and 7203. Of course, Cheek was free in this very case to present his claims of invalidity and have them adjudicated, but, like defendants in criminal cases in other contexts who "willfully" refuse to comply with the duties placed upon them by the law, he must take the risk of being wrong.
WatchDog Note: Cheek actually hung himself by pointing out that arguments about constitutionality of Federal income tax laws "reveal full knowledge of the provisions at issue and a studied conclusion, however wrong, that those provisions are invalid and unenforceable," (Quote by the Court).
Click the link below – Study this Warning page for law enforcement on Tax Protesters and 16th Amendment Junk. Notice the attempted TAX bombings? Great join one of the Fringe tax protester groups and get put on a list of people that are nut cases for forever! Are you nuts! Run from any of these assholes who will get you put in Jail!
(we have the best tax system in the world! Do I love it...no! But have been to 90% of countries in the world and there is only one I prefer to pay taxes in....the U.S. Small link but click study history
Scammer "Judge Rizzo" and Wife Sentenced to Prison
TAX EVASION SCAM
“The government will not tolerate abusive tax schemes that use offshore accounts to illegally escape taxes,” said Nancy Jardini, IRS Chief, Criminal Investigation. “Those Americans who file accurate, honest and timely returns can be assured that the government will hold accountable those who don’t.” “It is tragic when a former member of the judiciary, charged with upholding the law, encourages others to violate those laws,” said Paul K. Charlton, U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona.
As described in the plea agreements, from 1999 to 2002 John Rizzo was a prominent speaker at offshore seminars hosted by Institute of Global Prosperity (Global Prosperity). At these seminars, Mr. Rizzo promoted the Millennium 2000 Reliance Defense Program (Millennium Program) to thousands of people resulting in more than $4 million in sales revenue for the Rizzos. The program included written materials taxpayers could use to establish purported good faith reliance defenses against potential criminal tax prosecutions. At an earlier court hearing, a videotape was played showing Mr. Rizzo appearing at Global Prosperity seminars wearing judicial robes and portraying himself as a former judge and an expert on tax law.
THE CROOKED JUDGE SOLD OUT FOR MONEY SCAMMING INNOCENT PEOPLE!
MANY OF WHICH ARE IN JAIL TODAY FOR SWALLOWING HIS TAX EVASION BS!
The Rizzos also admitted that they provided opinion letters, materials and documentation that claimed, among other things, that taxpayers could lawfully stop filing income tax returns and stop their employers from withholding income taxes from their wages. This claim was based upon the long-rejected notion that the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution had not been legally ratified.
The Rizzos further admitted that they concealed the income they earned from the sales of the Millennium Program through various means. They used offshore bank accounts, third-party merchant accounts to process credit card sales, and requested payments from customers in cash, money orders, and checks with the payee lines left blank. John Rizzo also admitted to knowingly providing false and misleading testimony to a grand jury by testifying that he and his wife filed federal tax returns for the years 1999, 2000, and 2001, when in fact, he and his wife had not filed such tax returns as required by law. Ed Note: More Crooks Go Down - Keep reading!
TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 2005
WWW.USDOJ.GOV
“GLOBAL PROSPERITY” PRINCIPAL CONVICTED OF TAX FRAUD
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Eileen J. O’Connor, Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division, U.S. Department of Justice, John McKay, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington, and Nancy Jardini, Chief, Internal Revenue (IRS) Service Criminal Investigation Division, announced today that at the federal courthouse in Seattle, Washington, Dwayne Robare pled guilty to superseding information charging him with income tax evasion for the 2000 tax year.
On May 12, 2004, Mr. Robare was indicted-along with alleged Institute of Global Prosperity founders Daniel Anderson, David Struckman, Lorenzo (“Zo”) Lamantia (also known as “Lorenzo Milano”), and Kuldip Singh-on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States by impeding the IRS. Mr. Robare faces a maximum potential sentence of five years in jail, followed by up to three years of supervised release, $250,000 in fines, and liability for the costs of prosecution
PYRAMID SCHEME MONEY MAVEN TO BE SENTENCED
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TAX
TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2003 (202) 514-2007
JURY CONVICTS INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL PROSPERITY PARTICIPANT OF CONSPIRACY TO STRUCTURE CURRENCY TRANSACTIONS
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Assistant Attorney General Eileen J. O’Connor of the Tax Division announced that a federal jury in Seattle returned a guilty verdict against Laura Jean Marie Struckman, a participant in the Institute of Global Prosperity (IGP). She was convicted of conspiracy to structure a financial transaction.
(Ed. Note: Primary Action in prosecuting Pyramid Scheme)Trial evidence showed that Struckman, formerly of Renton, Washinton, and an unindicted co-conspirator engaged in a 14-month conspiracy from June 1997 through August 1998 to evade currency reporting requirements by making cash withdrawals of over $960,000 in 122 separate transactions, none of which exceeded $10,000. The evidence further established that Struckman was the co-signer on three nominee bank accounts, opened at the U.S. Bank of Washington, into which she and another individual deposited over $3.7 million, earned from IGP, during the time period of the conspiracy.
Struckman faces a maximum statutory penalty of five years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. She is scheduled to be sentenced by the Chief U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour Aug. 8, 2003. (Ed. Note: Secondary Actions in prosecuting Pyramid Scheme)In other cases related to IGP, Jeffrey and Shoshana Szuch and Margo Jordan all pleaded guilty to using foreign bank accounts to commit tax evasion. According to indictments in those cases, the government showed that IGP was an organization that hosted offshore seminars for promoters of abusive trusts and anti-tax schemes. IGP was also known by other names, including Global Prosperity Marketing Group (GPMG) and Global Prosperity Group (GPG). Members of IGP marketed and sold various IGP products, including an "education course" named "Global 1" priced at $1,250; a ticket to a three-day offshore seminar named "Global 2" priced at $6,250; and a ticket to a five-day offshore seminar named "Global 3" priced at $18,750. The indictments alleged that the Global 2 and Global 3 seminars brought together portions of the IGP membership to hear, among other things, presentations by individuals and organizations involved in the sale and operation of foreign trusts designed in part to conceal income from the Internal Revenue Service.
Ed. Note: As you can see this illegal Pyramid Scheme rolled some serious money out of the pockets of suckers who wanted to believe taxation was not legal. On top of that the Pyramid Scheme operators scammed life savings investment money right and left from Pyramid Scheme participants who believed their 10% returns (a month) were real.
The Struckman case was investigated by agents of IRS Criminal Investigation. It was prosecuted by Tax Division trial attorneys Mark T. Odulio and Christopher J. Maietta.
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