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Feds Eye Tiger $ex Probe
The National Enquirer ^ | 12/20/09

Posted on 12/20/2009 9:43:36 AM PST by marshmallow

In a potentially devastating development for Tiger Woods, his growing sex scandal and hush money payoffs have caught the attention of the FBI and IRS.

A top source in Washington, D.C., divulged that in mid-December "discussions were underway" involving those two government agencies about whether to launch a federal probe of the billionaire golfer.

"They haven't pulled the trigger yet, but they smell blood in the water," the source told The ENQUIRER.

"Their interest was heightened when they heard reports suggesting that Tiger may have been paying for high-class call girls.

"It had already come out that Tiger's company may have paid for the travel of at least one of his girlfriends for a recent hookup in Australia. If Tiger is using company money to do it - and if illegal activity such as prostitution is taking place - then they're going to come down on him."

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"You can't use charitable, tax deductible money for your own private purposes," said Craig Silverman, a former Colorado prosecutor. "It's also legally problematic if you use non-charitable corporate money for personal sexual adventures."

Incoming!!!

1 posted on 12/20/2009 9:43:36 AM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Excuse me, but when did it become a Federal crime for buying a piece of ass? Maybe a state/local problem but the Feds have better things to do.


2 posted on 12/20/2009 9:45:38 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

If they do this, the race card will be played big time. Tiger will become black in the eyes of the race hustlers.

“See, they’re just trying to keep a brother down.”


3 posted on 12/20/2009 9:46:45 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: marshmallow

OMG, just like the baseball steroids issue, our legislators are here to save us. /s


4 posted on 12/20/2009 9:46:46 AM PST by catfish1957 (Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
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To: Gaffer

Tiger has a charitable foundation which is tax deductible. If he’s using foundation money to pay for hookers, the Feds will come calling.


5 posted on 12/20/2009 9:47:03 AM PST by marshmallow ("A country which kills its own children has no future" -Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
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To: marshmallow

With David Letterman, you have potential for interstate prostitution. And what about Chris Dod? [Waitress Sandwich.] The list is endless. What’s that latest rat sex scandal with tax money?


6 posted on 12/20/2009 9:47:53 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (Ayers unimportant? What about Robert KKK Byrd or FALN pardons? DNC -- the terrorism party.)
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To: dfwgator

I don’t really care about the whole thing. Slugs chase money. Slugs are all over him now. The only non-slug in the bunch is his cuckholded wife and I hope she cleans his effing clock.....


7 posted on 12/20/2009 9:48:01 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: marshmallow

What kind of investigation was done with Barney Frank?


8 posted on 12/20/2009 9:48:49 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (Ayers unimportant? What about Robert KKK Byrd or FALN pardons? DNC -- the terrorism party.)
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To: marshmallow

The law enforcement community at the Federal level has failed to capture Charlie Rangel, Barak 0bama, Barney Frank, and a whole host of other miscreants. Why pick on Tiger? At least he was a bit more circumspect in philandering, and I don’t think he screwed the whole country...


9 posted on 12/20/2009 9:48:59 AM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2013: Change we can look forward to.)
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To: marshmallow

And how do they prove from whence that money came. It isn’t like he doesn’t have any side accounts from other legal taxable income to pay for what he got......this is nowhere fast.


10 posted on 12/20/2009 9:49:17 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: marshmallow

Tiger wasn’t issuing 1099’s or withholding Social Security for his girlfriends, and the IRS wants their cut.


11 posted on 12/20/2009 9:50:04 AM PST by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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To: marshmallow
hush money payoffs have caught the attention of the FBI and IRS.

Just pissed that they didn't get their cut....


12 posted on 12/20/2009 9:51:03 AM PST by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: Gaffer

“Excuse me, but when did it become a Federal crime for buying a piece of ass?”

Excuse me, but is this not what Congress does every single day of the week and sometimes on weekends? /nosarc


13 posted on 12/20/2009 9:51:39 AM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable, and unambiguous clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: marshmallow

Oh PLEASE....NOTHING will happen to him criminally, he;s BLACK!


14 posted on 12/20/2009 9:53:02 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: DennisR

Okay, you got me there....but those are the ‘elected’ ones. These asshole FEDs looking into him now are career, aren’t they?


15 posted on 12/20/2009 9:53:04 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: marshmallow

The Feds are idiots. Federal prosecutors are more interested in getting a headline than anything else.


16 posted on 12/20/2009 9:54:56 AM PST by microgood
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To: marshmallow

Probably some bright IRS operative was watching a TV show where a very bright female caller asked the question:

“Did the sluts who received the thousands of dollars from TW report it as income to the IRS?”

The Feds are probably not after TW, the golfer - but the TW’s (Tail Waggers)!


17 posted on 12/20/2009 9:55:19 AM PST by sodpoodle (Stop wasting our wealth and start telling the truth.)
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To: Tallguy

“Tiger wasn’t issuing 1099’s or withholding Social Security for his girlfriends, and the IRS wants their cut.”

Hey, if the rest of us have to issue 1099s for a variety of reasons, why shouldn’t Eldrick? Moreover, these ho’s should have to pay their “fair share” of taxes on their hush money.


18 posted on 12/20/2009 9:55:50 AM PST by Comparative Advantage
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To: Gaffer

MOre than likely. Yeah - you would think they have better things to do - like keeping an eye on terrorists. But then that brings me back to the elected officials again. :)


19 posted on 12/20/2009 9:55:59 AM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable, and unambiguous clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: marshmallow

Oh dear, Tiger’s paying the price for having stayed out of politics and not greasing the powerful.


20 posted on 12/20/2009 9:56:01 AM PST by sinanju
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