Posted on 01/30/2009 3:57:40 PM PST by MindBender26
Bumps in the Road: Obama's HHS Secretary Nominee Faces Tax Questions Over Car and Driver
ABC News has learned that the nomination of former Senator Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., to be President Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services has hit a traffic snarl on its way through the Senate Finance Committee.
The controversy deals with a car and driver lent to Daschle by a wealthy Democratic friend, a chauffeur service the former senator used for years without declaring it on his taxes.
After being defeated in his 2004 re-election campaign to the Senate, Daschle in 2005 became a consultant and chairman of the Executive Advisory Board at InterMedia Advisors.
Based in New York City, InterMedia Advisors is a private equity firm founded in part by longtime Daschle friend and Democratic fundraiser Leo Hindery,
That same year he began his professional relationship with InterMedia 2005, Daschle began using the services of Hindery's car and driver.
The Cadillac and driver were never part of Daschle's official compensation package at InterMedia but Mr. Daschle -- who as Senate majority leader enjoyed the use of a car and driver at taxpayer expense -- didn't declare their services on his income taxes, as tax laws require.
During the vetting process to become HHS secretary, Daschle corrected the tax violation, voluntarily paying $101,943 in back taxes plus interest, working with his accountant to amend his tax returns for 2005 through 2007.
Daschle reimbursed the IRS $31,462 in taxes and interest for tax year 2005; $35,546 for 2006; and $34,935, for 2007.
The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., has called his colleagues for a private meeting at 5 p.m. ET Monday to discuss these complications surrounding Daschle's nomination.
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Over the last 6 or 7 years....I chatted with her on and off during that time. I last chatted with her about a year ago.
My favorites were the multiple freshmen who arrived driving their Cadillacs, towing their Corvettes, complaining they could only get one on-campus parking sticker!
Worked at WFUN, other jobs. Was too busy for dumb campus stuff, however for beer, women, other women, more women, more beer, I made my exceptions.
:`)
Be well
She dropped out 5 or 6 years ago. Must’ve been after your time, because she’s only about 25 or 26 now, and we would chat online. I first talked with her around 2002, 2003, somewhere around there, and she mentioned going to the frats and getting it on with the jocks....Oh well, just thought I’d ask!
“Obama= another fraud democrat.”
I repeat myself since you asked.
That’s a real reach to blame O for Tom Daschle’s sense of entitlement. Entitlement, by the way, is in the democrats’ DNA.
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