Posted on 09/30/2005 4:59:32 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
SYRACUSE Ithaca attorney William P. Sullivan, Jr., 62, of 417 North Aurora St., pleaded guilty Thursday to four counts of failing to file his federal income tax returns for the years 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001, federal officials said.
Sullivan's guilty pleas were entered in U.S. District Court, Syracuse, before U.S. Magistrate Judge George H. Lowe.
By his plea, Sullivan admitted that he failed to file his federal income tax returns for those four years. By his plea, he also admitted that the total taxes owed to the IRS for those four years was $34,691.
Sullivan faces up to one year in jail and a possible fine of $25,000 on each of the four counts. Sentencing is scheduled for March 1, 2006.
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So was this symbolic rage against the war machine, or is he just a liberal cheapa$$?
"...or is he just a liberal cheapa$$?"
Well, he's pretty cheap if he's facing jail and a $100,000 fine over not paying $34,000 in taxes.
This cannot be true..It would be a breach of professional ethics to not pay his taxes.
Sullivan is a Republican.
I'm sure this was no symbolic statement, but simply the outcome of a very messy life and mind. I've seen his desk.
Thanks for the clarification.
What's ironic is that Sullivan has been convicted, and faces jail time, while many Ithaca "anti-war tax resisters" proudly flaunt their refusal to pay taxes and have done so with impunity.
Republican or not, if that's true, I have no sympathy for him, politics aside.
Again, please note that Sullivan is a Republican. He did this not to protest anything, but because he is a disorganized, eccentric man.
Not exactly a huge amount by current standards, especially spread over FOUR years....
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