[sandude]

fact: one potential suspect dead under suspicious circumstances...

Please clue us in on this "fact".

fact: father of victim had an unusual relationship with known excon and used tax-avoiding and illegal means to pay off that same excon.....

Please explain what was unusual about the relationship and list your proof of any illegal payment. Until he is charged with a crime he should be presumed innocent of not paying social security on behalf of his employees.

[Devil_Anse]

Yeah, I loved that one: "tax-avoiding and illegal means to pay off that same excon."

Have people forgotten that withholding was not always what was done in this country? Could someone--and I'm not even being facetious here, I really want to know--please tell me why it would be illegal to pay someone in cash for doing work for you? Or, for that matter, to say, "you take the jeep, I'll take X number of hours of your work?"

AND would someone PLEASE tell me this: assuming Ed WAS paying Ricci in cash to avoid tax obligations, DOES EVERYONE BELIEVE THAT RICCI REPORTED EACH AND EVERY DIME OF INCOME HE RECEIVED IN CASH?