YES IT IS - the proof's here......
Your Honor, It Was "Two Utes".
:-)
Posted on 03/05/2005 6:23:12 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
A former IRS agent who once helped catch tax cheats will join some of them behind bars.
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart sentenced former Utahn Marissa Hyde to three months incarceration and three months of home confinement for telling clients of her tax preparation business how to cheat the Internal Revenue Service. The judge also ordered her to pay a $5,000 fine.
"This is not a small matter," the judge said in rejecting a defense request to sentence Hyde to probation.
Hyde, 43, who now lives in Overland Park, Kan., and is studying to be a nurse, said she wants to be a productive citizen again and apologized for her actions. She had pleaded guilty in August to one count of attempting to interfere with the administration of IRS laws.
"I recognize that what I did was wrong," she said. "It was very poor judgment on my part."
After quitting the IRS, allegedly because she was tired of being on the "bad side" and wanted to help taxpayers, Hyde set up Accounting and Business Consulting in Layton with other partners.
In a plea bargain, she admitted to participating in a scheme in 2000 and 2001 that set up foreign trusts as a way to evade federal income taxes. Prosecutors say she used her previous employment to make the scam appear legitimate.
They say that in March 2000, Hyde helped two undercover IRS agents and their fake corporation set up one of these trusts. In addition, she proposed that the agents market the scam to their clients, according to prosecutors.
Court documents allege that Hyde told the agents the fraud would go undetected and said, "I'm never going to report you to the IRS . . . you can take my word for it."
Nicholas Dickinson, of the U.S. Department of Justice, said at Friday's sentencing that the former agent was trying to help the undercover agents avoid paying taxes on $500,000 in capital gains. Hyde, who also filled out false federal and state returns that claimed a fraudulent $50,000 business expense, was paid $5,000 for her efforts, he said.
Another defendant has pleaded guilty in the scheme and is awaiting sentencing. Trial is pending for two others accused of being co-conspirators.
pmanson@sltrib.com
Silly girl. You have be a Pepsi or Wal-Mart and have friends in Congress to get a piece of that action. It's only a crime if you're one of the little people.
Yup, only the government is permitted to steal. Citizens are supposed to bend over and accept their fate.
"Utahn"
I don't believe I've ever seen that before.
Well what is the correct word. Is it Ute?, or maybe Utahwan?
Hyde goes to jail for hiding income?
I'm asssuming since this article comes from the Salt Lake Tribune, that it's correct.
I just can't remember ever seeing it before.
"Utahn" is the generally accepted term. "Ubangie" is also used in a derogatory manner.
YES IT IS - the proof's here......
:-)
Thanks for that! I was thinking the same thing. Great movie! "My Cousin Vinny."
Gee its a good thing she didn't set up a Ponzi Scheme or some phony 'Retirement Investment Scam'.
You know, that's were you get.. say 43 people to 'invest' in order to pay for the original 'investee'. And then get MORE 'investors' to pay THOSE 43 'investors'. The problem though as I undstand it - and why it's ILLEGAL, is that you eventually run out of 'investors' to pay all those subsequent 'investors'.
Wait .... that's Social Security, never mind.
Isn't "Ute" a young person? Or is it a Native American tribe.
My favorite one is "Utard"...
"Ubangie"?
I need to get out more......
It's kind of like when I hear "U.N." I immediately think of Gov. William J. LePetomaine (Mel Brooks, Blazing Saddles) saying,
"Gentlemen! We have to save our phony baloney jobs!"
Ah yes, "Blazing Saddles" ....a classic. The letters "GOV" on the back of his coat. One of my favorite lines is the cross-eyed Gov looking close-up at his well-endowed assistant's ample bosom and saying, "Did you miss me, boys?"
Blazing Saddles is one of the funniest movies ever (uncut and un-dubbed version). But alas, it could NEVER be made today as Mel Brooks humor would offend everyone.
Isn't "Ute" a young person? Or is it a Native American tribe.
Actually there are several Ute peoples or "tribes" in the Four Corners area. The Ute Mountain Tribe of Ute Indians in SW Colorado/SE Utah and the Sky Ute Tribe of Ute Indians In SW Colo.
Youth is what is wasted on the young.
Or Lily VonStchupp's eyes growing wider and wider whilst the zipper is being unzipppppppped and claiming: It's twue twue it's twue or Slim Pickens trying to get the gandy dancers to lay more track and not "jump around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots!" Wonder if Mel left any group unoffended in that (my favorite) movie? later, ldf
Brooks is a comedic genius.
I was just thinking that about a 1/2 hour ago.
The only group I can think of that he didn't satire in the movie was the Irish for being drunks.
I'm gonna have to watch it again and make a list :-)
(and Slim Pickens was great in it. His cowboy stereotype of basically HIMSELF was fantastic)
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