IRS tax fraud case in the news. What about Hank Greenberg, Inc?

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Subject: IRS tax fraud case in the news. What about Hank Greenberg,
Inc?

Date: Jan 30, 2008 8:22 AM

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Well, the IRS has got to be kidding, because I know who flips when I
post something
about the Hank Greenberg-ites, certain Walmart-esque Anglo-bankers,
the Bill Weld-ites,
the Jonathan Bush-Riggs-Banker-ites, and the offshoring of one's
assets.
http://www.actionlyme.org/BUSHIE_CIA_BANK_RIGGS.htm

In Canada, they're calling for the Irving's to lose citizenship, since
most
of their assets are offshore. Bermuda, the Caiman Islands, Aruba,...
Are we kidding?
This gig with the Bermuda banking started after WWII. Anywhere there
is a UK island
in this hemisphere, you'll probably find some sort of CIA-Bushie-CFR
spook bank.

http://www.actionlyme.org/johnloftusbushnazi.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/DURHAM_BUSH_CRIME.htm
http://www.tarpley.net/bush8b.htm
*READ* ABOUDDIT.
http://www.tarpley.net/bushb.htm#1%20--

Do we think the Bushie-Anglo Banker, Dulles-Harriman cabal will risk
being caught
again?
Bill Weld, people, and the "Nature Conservancy." Their entire careers
are about hiding their money. Most of these non-profits like the Mayo
Clinic, Robert
Woods Johnson, and the Rockefeller University/Institute are never
straight on anything.
Their Bottom Line (and weapons potential) is always the fulcrum for
decisions on
the sci med truths we commoners ever hear.

http://www.actionlyme.org/ROCKEFELLER_UNIVERSITY.htm <-- The biggest
cache of
Borrelial and Spirochetal dirt known to exist in the entire universe.


Think about it. The BigBoys had long ago solved the problem of hiding
their assets
from the IRS.

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Snipes trial offers IRS perfect script

Wesley Snipes' Trial Offers Perfect Script for IRS to Discourage Anti-
Tax Activists

TRAVIS REED
AP News

Jan 29, 2008 16:14 EST

Even Hollywood couldn't have written a more ideal script for the
Internal Revenue
Service than actor Wesley Snipes' tax-fraud trial.

At a time when millions of Americans are buckling down to prepare
their taxes, Snipes
is being cast as a villainous example of the dangers of joining with
Internet-fueled
activists who claim the IRS has no authority to collect taxes.

Snipes, the star of the "Blade" films and "White Men Can't Jump,"
is on trial with two tax protesters in one of the biggest criminal
cases in IRS
history, and the agency hopes the media attention on the matter will
dissuade others
in the "tax avoidance" movement from trying to outwit the government.

"People who do it openly and notoriously, you've got to go after
them,"
said Sheldon Cohen, who was IRS commissioner and general counsel in
the 1960s. "Not
because he's that important or the amount of money is that important,
but because
there are others who may be foolish enough to follow."

Snipes, 45, could get up to 16 years in prison if convicted on all
counts, although
sentences that long are unusual.

His two co-defendants are an anti-tax ideologue who refuses to defend
himself in
court and an accountant who lost his licenses. The trio rested their
defense Monday
without calling any witnesses, saying they didn't need to.

"Nobody likes paying taxes, but paying taxes is the price we pay to
live in
a civilized society," Assistant U.S. Attorney M. Scotland Morris said
Tuesday
in closing arguments. "And it's the law, and that's what this case
is about. It's about three men who felt they were above the law."

Defense attorney Robert Barnes conceded Snipes' arguments may have
been crazy,
but insisted that didn't make them criminal.

"Disagreement with the IRS is not fraud of the IRS, is not deception,"
Barnes said. "It was an attempt to engage the IRS, to go through the
IRS procedures
and processes and see who's right."

In lengthy filings to the IRS, the three defendants claimed they did
not legally
have to pay taxes, citing an obscure section of the tax code that
establishes that
foreign sources of income for U.S. citizens are taxable. Protesters
take that to
mean only foreign sources are taxable, and wages made in this country
are not.

"They string unconnected things together in a way that they're just
not
intended to be strung together," said Chris Rizek, a former Treasury
Department
lawyer who specialized in tax policy. "And the courts have repeatedly
said
'No, that's the wrong interpretation, listen to this.' And they just
don't listen."

Snipes, who is free on $1 million bond, was paying millions in federal
income taxes
until 2000 when, according to prosecutors, he accepted the arguments
of his two
co-defendants. Snipes then allegedly began seeking nearly $12 million
in illegal
refunds for taxes he already paid.

Snipes, alleged ringleader Eddie Ray Kahn and former CPA Douglas P.
Rosile were
indicted on eight counts alleging tax fraud, conspiracy and willful
failure to file
returns. Kahn now refuses to leave his jail cell because he believes
the court has
no jurisdiction to prosecute him.

The government says Kahn founded a group in the 1990s, American Rights
Litigators,
and a successor group, Guiding Light of God Ministries, that purported
to help members
legally avoid paying taxes. Rosile, a former accountant who lost his
licenses in
Ohio and Florida, prepared the paperwork. Snipes joined their group in
2000.

Witnesses for the prosecution have said up to 4,000 people refused to
pay taxes
based on the group's arguments.

The three men claimed the IRS is not a legitimate government agency.
Snipes also
argued in long, bizarre letters that he was a nonresident alien; that
the IRS terrorizes
and deceives citizens; and that efforts to prosecute him would cause
"increased
collateral risk."

Most tax cases are handled in civil court, because the IRS does not
have enough
agents or time to pursue criminal charges against ordinary taxpayers
who fudge a
deduction or a decimal place on their tax returns.

But pursuing the matter in criminal court carries other risks -- the
burden of proof
is higher, and an acquittal would instantly galvanize the tax-
avoidance movement,
which already enjoys boundless exposure on the Internet.

The IRS has been successful in pursuing criminal cases against the
movement's
followers.

Last year, for example, a New Hampshire tax protester vowed to die
fighting rather
than be apprehended following criminal conviction on several tax
charges. Several
people were arrested trying to help Ed Brown and his wife avoid
capture, and almost
all of them were from other states.

Brown and his wife were taken peacefully, but only after agents
tricked the couple
into surrendering.

But there are exceptions. In 2003, FedEx pilot and tax protester
Vernice Kuglin
was acquitted because the jury found she sincerely believed she didn't
have
to pay taxes.

Kuglin's assets were seized, and the government got its tax money.
Despite that,
her case is held by some protesters as proof that the IRS is a sham,
and citizens
really don't have to pay taxes.

Cohen, the former IRS commissioner, said trials like Snipes' are
important to
discourage potential tax scofflaws from defying the government.

"Locks are important on windows to keep honest men from becoming
thieves,"
Cohen said. "Because a thief can get into a window even if it's
locked,
right? But you do that as a deterrent."

Source: AP News