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I am encouraged by a recent defeat for these bastards in court. A muffler shop in Colorado went all the way up the chain and beat these bastards with regards to withholding money from their employees paychecks. They legally challenged the notion that a paycheck in exchange for labor was "income" and won. I will call my friend in Colorado and see if I can't get a docket number etc. to back up what I was told.
I look forward to your cite on the Colorado case.
I would love to have a look at that case if you can get me the info.

Well friends, I finally got through to my friend in Colorado tonight. As background, he runs a business near the muffler shop, about 1/4 of a mile away and did business with the man on a daily basis. I could not find anything on the web about the happy outcome that my friend told me about. The only info I could find was about the indictments, but I'll post that so maybe you can use that as a basis for searching. I clearly remember him telling me about the $88K the IRS refunded to him a few years ago that the story mentions.

Maybe some FReeper with connections in the legal world could find out about this case from the info I post here.

The following was found here.

The third injunction, filed in Federal District Court in Denver, was sought against Richard D. Rudd Sr.; his wife, Dolores; their children and their spouses; and their company, Colorado Mufflers Unlimited, also known as Exhaust Pros, in the Denver suburb of Northglenn. They owe more than $210,000 for taxes not withheld from paychecks of the company's nine employees, according to court papers. In addition, the I.R.S. erroneously refunded $88,768 that had been withheld from employees of the muffler business in 1997 and 1998. In May, a federal judge ordered the Rudds to return the money to the I.R.S., according to court records. Richard D. Rudd Jr., one of those named in the request, said he was not aware of the lawsuit over the refund or anything about a tax dispute.