Posted on 09/09/2009 5:01:37 AM PDT by Libloather
Ex-N.Y. Mets Pitcher Will Do Time For Tax Evasion
Federal Judge Sentences Former Major Leaguer Jerry Koosman To 6 Months
Sep 4, 2009 11:38 am US/Eastern
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday sentenced former major league pitcher Jerry Koosman to six months in prison for not paying his taxes.
Prosecutors say Koosman, a former All-Star who helped the New York Mets win the 1969 World Series, didn't pay federal income taxes for 2002, 2003 and 2004. He pleaded guilty in May to willfully failing to file taxes for 2002, a misdemeanor, in a deal with prosecutors.
U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb found that Koosman cost the government as much as $80,000. She could have sentenced him to a full year in prison but chose to cut that in half and add a year of supervised release, during which probation agents will closely monitor his finances.
Prosecutors said in May that Koosman had paid back the delinquent taxes.
The judge scolded Koosman for taking advantage of all the opportunities the United States offered him, including the chance to play major league baseball and win a World Series, then walking away without paying.
"It is a serious blemish on an otherwise outstanding life," Crabb told Koosman.
Koosman, 66, of Osceola, told IRS agents in 2006 that he had researched federal tax laws and concluded they applied only to federal employees, corporate workers and District of Columbia residents. During a May hearing, he told Crabb he was naive and fell in with the anti-tax movement.
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Apparently he's never heard of tax-cheat Charlie Rangel or tax-cheat Timmy Geithner.
Prayers for Jerry.
And why isn't Rangel and Geithner in jail?
From Bull Pen to State Pen? (yes, I know he was a starter)
He could have avoided all of that if he had just befriended zero and joined his cabinet.
Tried to throw the IRS a curve...
With so much unrepentent tax evasion among Federal officials like Rangel and Geithner (the effing TREASURY SECRETARY), I'm surprised more people facing prosecution for tax evasion don't take their chances in Federal court before a jury -- and call those bastards as witnesses for the defense.
And that is an E/1 if you are scoring this at home...
I had the pleasure... er, make that opportunity to get to know Lefty, and I can say the man is certifiably insane.
The man is a LaRouche follower and has a Svengali like effect on folks who aren't notably bright.
What, no multi-hundred-thousand dollar a year job offer from the White House?
He shoulda voted demonrat and it would all be a misunderstanding of the tax code.
STARVE THE FRIGGIN BEAST!
The more it benefits some the more naive they get.
He just didn’t understand that the one thing the American people won’t tolerate is not ponying up his “fair share.”
I've come to think that too.
But he could pitch.
Free Jerry Koosman!
Free Jerry Koosman!
(insert sandwich board bearing photo
of Turbo-Tax Timmy here)
A letter writing campaign asking Bam
for a Pardon might be fun....
Usse the Rangle\Gietner defense.
Mets ping
Koos always seemed like such a nice Minne-Snowta boy. I always suspected Ed Kranepool would do worse.
Come to think of it, his best buddy, Tim McCarver, always struck me as one short of a sixpack.
He should’ve lobbied for a spot on Obama’s staff.
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