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(Bloomberg) U.S. prosecutors and Internal Revenue Service agents spent four years piercing the veil of secrecy that billionaire money manager Robert F. Smith wove to hide more than $200 million in income. Last year, according to people familiar with the matter, a team led by the Justice Departmentâs top tax prosecutor argued to then-Attorney General William Barr that the evidence warranted indicting Smith, who had made headlines f.
(Bloomberg) U.S. prosecutors and Internal Revenue Service agents spent four years piercing the veil of secrecy that billionaire money manager Robert F. Smith wove to hide more than $200 million in income. Last year, according to people familiar with the matter, a team led by the Justice Departmentâs top tax prosecutor argued to then-Attorney General William Barr that the evidence warranted indicting Smith, who had made headlines for pledging to pay the stu
The Minnesota Supreme Court Chamber, located inside the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul. (Photo via Jonathunder/Wikipedia Commons)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (CN) Minnesota’s highest court unanimously upheld the state’s nonconsensual-porn statute Wednesday, bringing holiday cheer to privacy advocates and a year-end letdown to free-speech groups.
The court found that the statute, which has been embroiled in litigation since its passage in 2016, criminalizes constitutionally protected speech but is focused tightly enough on preventing the nonconsensual dissemination of explicit images to stand up to strict scrutiny.
“The constitutional right to free speech stands as a bedrock for our democracy,” Justice Natalie Hudson wrote in the 26-page opinion. “To protect this fundamental promise, we evaluate any encroachment on free speech with both caution and skepticism.”
Georgia tax accountants plead guilty in conservation easement scheme
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Two Georgia sibling tax accountants pleaded guilty in federal criminal court Monday for defrauding the Internal Revenue Service for $250,000 in tax revenue through conservation easement schemes. Photo by DJ Glisson II/Land Trust Alliance
Dec. 21 (UPI) Two Georgia sibling tax accountants pleaded guilty Monday to federal criminal charges that they encouraged clients to swindle the Internal Revenue Service out of $250 million in tax revenue through fraudulent syndicated conservation easement tax shelters, federal prosecutors announced.
Brothers Stein and Corey Agee of Canton and Atlanta, Ga., respectively, worked with clients between 2013 and 2019 to arrange $1.2 billion in fraudulent charitable contributions, and received $1.7 million in commissions, a statement from Richard Zuckerman, deputy assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice s tax division said.
South Dakota prison inmate suing federal government over COVID-19 stimulus money
Ruling in California sides with those incarcerated, but Springfield, S.D., prisoner says he still hasn t gotten funds Written By: Marcus Traxler | ×
SPRINGFIELD, S.D. A South Dakota prison inmate has sued the federal government regarding not receiving coronavirus stimulus funds paid out earlier this year.
Kelly Warfield, 47, brought the lawsuit in August against U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service Charles Retting. The lawsuit has not yet been fully resolved and is being handled by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Roberto Lange.
Ruling in California sides with those incarcerated, but Springfield prisoner says he still hasn t gotten funds Written By: Marcus Traxler | ×
A South Dakota prison inmate has sued the federal government regarding not receiving coronavirus stimulus funds paid out earlier this year.
Kelly Warfield, 47, brought the lawsuit in August against U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service Charles Retting. The lawsuit has not yet been fully resolved and is being handled by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Roberto Lange.
But most of the issue has already been taken up earlier this year in another federal court case. A judge in the Northern District of California ruled in favor of two California plaintiffs on Sept. 24 granting class-action certification and a preliminary injunction to stop the federal government from excluding incarcerated people from CARES Act funding. Because of that ruling, the IRS extended the deadli