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Re: Wench as a word
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Date: 
Wed, 22 Mar 2000 23:37:19 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ed Jones writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Edward Sanburn writes:

Proof would be
nice in this instance, not some rant by you. Give me some url's, etc.

http://www.friedly.com/jock/traficant011498.html

From this article (which generally paints a picture of a scoundrel, I'd have • to
agree, although who can say for sure what the facts are...)

"Although Traficant was acquitted in criminal court, he was less successful in
civil court. His latest financial disclosure form indicates that he still owes
more than $100,000 to the Internal Revenue Service after the U.S. Tax Court
ruled that he owed back taxes for taking bribes."

I would not count this as "not paying taxes".

If I am appealing a conviction against something, or even if I won an • aquittal,
being in dispute with the IRS about whether I owe taxes for that thing is not
the same as "not paying taxes"

Considering that the Civil Court decision was in 1984, and that there is no
appeal on file, and the statute of limitations has run out.  Owning back taxes
and then not paying the back taxes owed is not paying taxes.


But I agree, the man doesn't seem to choose good shirts. Like that really
matters, though.



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  Re: Wench as a word
 
(...) OK. That's the first I heard about the 1984 part, but I wasn't reading that closely, I had a project plan to tweak. But what are we debating here, anyway? The subject doesn't seem to match the words. Traficant is a garden variety pol. Scott (...) (24 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) agree, although who can say for sure what the facts are...) "Although Traficant was acquitted in criminal court, he was less successful in civil court. His latest financial disclosure form indicates that he still owes more than $100,000 to the (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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