Posted on 01/04/2008 5:06:16 AM PST by Man50D
A lawyer who was acquitted by a federal court trial jury of Internal Revenue Service accusations he failed to filed income tax returns for two years now is suing several IRS agents over their alleged improper disclosure of his personal information in the case.
A spokeswoman in the office of lawyer Tom Cryer told WND the case was assembled and filed by Cryer between Christmas Day and the end of 2007 and is expected to be placed on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.
Last summer in federal court a jury voted 12-0 to find Cryer, of Shreveport, not guilty of the IRS allegations. He had been indicted on 2006 on government claims he failed to pay $73,000 to the IRS in 2000 and 2001.
His successful defense was based on a challenge to the IRS to prove a constitutional foundation for the nation's income tax.
Now his claim against the government's agents, according to a report in the Shreveport Times, explains four IRS criminal investigation division workers tried to destroy his reputation during the course of their investigation in the case.
The lawsuit alleges IRS agents Jimmy H. Sandefur, Darrin A. Heusel and Judge Armand, and a trainee, Patrick Potter "entered into a smear and fear campaign to destroy Plaintiff's good reputation and law practice."
Cryer alleges the federal workers repeatedly violated federal laws that restrict the disclosure of tax information, release of information about an investigation and publicizing information about a grand jury investigation.
The report said Cryer's lawsuit alleges the agents continually raised those issues in telephone calls, during personal visits and in letters exchanged with Cryer's clients during their investigation.
The action seeks $1,000 in damages for each incident in which a federal agent compromised Cryer's confidential information.
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Aw comon. You aren't that stupid. The opposition is to a new tax. We're smart enough to know that the income tax isn't going away. The "fair" tax is just another tax on top of the ones we already have.
I will never support a new tax. Show me more than 310 votes in Congress and 67 votes in the Senate for repealing the income tax amendment and then we can begin to talk about the replacement for it.
Documents matter as far as me forming an opinion on the truth of all the claims.
For what?
For what?
All good and pure ... like the "Virgin of Bourbon St."
Are you a lawyer?
Yours is a very small case.
Most small matters are handled quickly because it makes no sense to increase the backlog over trivial dollars.
Most small matters are handled by pleasant IRS employees.
What really grates most business owners is the fact that they feel undignified in filling out a return and wondering if they have satisfied the complex myriad of rules. So they keep reams and boxes full of paper that they find difficult to keep organized because of the time involved. For example, a batch of fuel receipts going back at least three years or more. And that’s just one small example.
Your experience was small and mild. Try not to jump from that small experience to thinking that others are overstating their grievances. The abuses are real. Let’s hope you never have to find out just how real they can be.
I know exactly how that can happen. I begged for mercy from these people, as I am disabled and unable to work, but SS says I’m not eligible.
So, I’m living on some very meager income I have, just barely able to eat, sometimes not even that. I applied some withheld taxes from this income to my payment and the IRS claimed I still owed them $800, which seems impossible on $12,000/year income.
I wrote them a long letter explaining my situation, after talking to an agent on the phone, as well, and they decided I owed them $2000, instead. Again, seems impossible to me.
Well, this month, I was missing my biggest income check and found in the mail, a notice where the IRS had levied that check, plus some others. I will now be evicted from my cheapie apartment because I can’t pay the rent. I have nowhere else to go except a homeless shelter and I am in very poor health, so would die in such a situation.
Bloodthirsty scum-suckers is all I can say.
If you were to read the transcripts and conclude that Cryer’s defense was ‘true’, what would you do?
My comment to you is that it would not matter. You are not Cryer and you should not attempt to do what he did. He has said so himself.
But do try to satisfy yourself; only beware. In this case the ‘Truth’ will likely not set you free.
What will set you free is the FairTax:
BS Talking Point. Debunked numerous times.
That is not true -- and you know it.
I take it you’re posting to FR from a homeless-shelter owned computer?
“Your experience was small and mild. Try not to jump from that small experience to thinking that others are overstating their grievances. The abuses are real. Let’s hope you never have to find out just how real they can be.”
I don’t doubt that there are true horror stories, but when I continually hear stories like the $4,000 bill for the $17 mistake, I have to wonder about some of those tales.
Although I have done some freelancing over the years and have always claimed that money, I don’t own a business so I can’t relate to those complications. I admit that my return is pretty simple.
Why? I’m still in the cheapie apartment until the rent is due on Feb. 1.
yep...heres the link:
www.whocareswhatchuthink.com
HUH? What are you talkin about....no never mind, I don’t wanna know.
>>Aw comon. You aren’t that stupid. The opposition is to a new tax. We’re smart enough to know that the income tax isn’t going away.”
Well then you must be the smartest fella on the planet.
To those who have been wronged by the enforcement arm of the present tax code, ANYTHING is better than what we currently have.
Just another big government socialist wet-dream
The website should be http://fairtax.orgasm
I tend to agree with both statements, but I don't see anything in your reply that indicates ANY possibility of the federal income tax going away, fair tax or not. Until you can explain how you are going to end the income tax, a national sales tax is just another tax INCREASE on top of our current taxes.
I don't find that to be fair or desirable.
That isn't any truer this time than it was when you said it about 10,000 before. <[> Get a new lie will you?
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