Posted on 02/28/2009 5:11:25 AM PST by COUNTrecount
White House general counsel Gregory Craig has seized control of Obama's vetting process after a series of nominees with unpaid taxes. But his wife's business may also have avoided taxes. Who vets the vetter?
Derry Noyes, Craig's wife, runs Noyes Graphics, a design business, out of the couple's home in northwest Washington. Between Craig's work and hers, they've been on Washington's A-list for a decade.
PBS's American Stamps aired a profile of her two days ago. She designs specialty postage for the U.S. Postal Service, including a number of notable stamps. One recent series celebrating the work of famous architect Charles Eames was featured in Metropolis. Noyes herself is the daughter of architect Eliot Noyes, a friend of Eames.
Operating a business out of one's home in D.C. requires a home occupation permit and registration with the city's division of corporations. Additionally, the government has instituted a new requirement for business license permits.
A spokesman at the Washington D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs told Gawker that no one has ever sought any kind of permit or registration for a business under the name of Noyes Graphics or at the Craigs' home address. By not registering Craig may have avoided local business taxes.
Private investigator Joseph Culligan looked into business records for Noyes Graphics, which is run out of the Craigs' home, and found Dun & Bradstreet records showing substantial annual sales, a Yellow Pages listing, and an online listing inviting customers to visit the business at her home address (now posted on Webofdeception.com).
And a source within the D.C. government has told Culligan that authorities have begun a full-fledged investigation into Noyes Graphics. (The spokesman would not confirm or deny the existence of an investigation.)
An unregistered home business may seem like a "gotcha" scandal. And were some new appointee to come along with this kind of problem, the public might shrug it off, even with the past tax scandals of Obama nominees. But Craig was charged with putting an end to those problems. As Politco explained it:
"A narrative was building, and the president asked us to be more vigilant in the vetting process," said a source involved in the vetting.
Instead of closing a chapter, Craig has become part of the story himself.
The vetter was never vetted?
Who’s responsible for vetting the vetter?
Liberals have no values and thus nothing to be held accountable for.
Because conservatives have values their shortcomings are thrown in their face, each time they fall short.
We want every one of these high-profile Democrat “power couples” to pay their “fair share” of BO’s new tax vendetta on families with $250K income...particularly since it seems they weren’t paying taxes when all the rest of us were. They should be socked with interest and penalties just like those that we tax drones would be assessed had we been tax cheats all these years.
I won’t print what I’m thinking since it’s expletive laden.
What I really love about the recent democrat “shortcomings” is that they are pushing a debt on all of us that requires our cooperation with tax law.
It seems that in order to participate in the Obama administration you really need to have neglected your duty as a taxpayer.
You couldn’t ask for a better recipe for a tax revolt.
That person went to vetter prison.
It is too bad that this article did not trigger a debate on the complexity and obscurity of the local laws which require that anybody who works from home has to purchase a license from the municipality in order to be legal.
I can understand the local desire to regulate businesses, in examples like a gravel truck company operating out of a house, providing housing arrangements for illegal aliens, etc., but the irony of big government types tripping over big government rules is so... ironical.
Since paying taxes is considered patriotic, it’s perfectly understandable why the left does not pay their own taxes.
“I can understand the local desire to regulate businesses, in examples like a gravel truck company operating out of a house, providing housing arrangements for illegal aliens, etc., but the irony of big government types tripping over big government rules is so... ironical.”
it is delicious isn’t it?
An opportunity for the repubs to make a point and diplay a sense of humor as well...
Approach the president and say “Mr. President, clearly the tax laws are so complex that even the BEST people of your choosing are tripping over them.
Could’t we agree to revamp the code so your friends will no longer be tax cheats Mr. President?”
The fact that America needs a specialty stamp designer is indicative of the times.
Wasn’t Craig the guy who hired the guy who was caught with the FBI files?
I might need more coffee before I attempt to answer that one.
Eric Holder
Greg Craig
Susan Rice
Leon Pannetta
Richard Holbrooke
Obama Adm. or third Clinton term?
Do any democrats or liberals pay taxes?
Of course not - as Carley pointed out, paying taxes is patriotic.
That person went to vetter prison.
The lead singer of Pearl Jam is pissed that his name keeps coming up in all of this.
Oh come on! That’s Craig in drag..right?...right?!
Libtards....
Full of rules and ideas for thee....but none for me!!!!
Good old Chicago Style deep dish politics.. I lived there and know it well. Easier to find a virgin in a whorehouse than an honest politician.
Oh does it never end! LOL If you are one of the worker bee’s do this and see what happens to you. It’s called JAIL and CONFINSCATION of everything you own. All at the whim of a Kangaroo court that the IRS has.
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