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Trump 14th Amendment political challenger arrested on federal tax charges
The Hill ^ | 1/10/24 | NICK ROBERTSON

Posted on 01/10/2024 4:23:46 PM PST by CFW

A Texas man who filed over two dozen challenges to former President Trump’s ballot eligibility was arrested Tuesday on charges alleging he filed 17 sets of false tax documents to the IRS.

John Anthony Castro was indicted last week on 33 counts of aiding the preparation of false tax returns. Prosecutors claim he ran a virtual tax preparation business that provided customers with tax returns beyond what they were actually owed, defrauding the government.

“Castro would promise a significantly higher refund than taxpayers could receive from other preparers and on many occasions, offered to split the additional refund with taxpayers,” prosecutors said in court documents. “In order to achieve these larger refunds, Castro generated false deductions, that were not based in fact, and which were submitted without the taxpayer’s knowledge.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 14thamendment; castro; irs; johnanthonycastro; johncastro; texas; trump; trumppersecution
Ooops. Maybe there is one honest Trump-supporting FBI/IRS agent after all!
1 posted on 01/10/2024 4:23:46 PM PST by CFW
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Was he working for Hillary or Soros?


2 posted on 01/10/2024 4:25:45 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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“Ooops. Maybe there is one honest Trump-supporting FBI/IRS agent after all!”

Even the federal government makes mistakes. I suspect that they’ll again correct themselves by giving him the Ray Epps treatment.


3 posted on 01/10/2024 4:25:48 PM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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I am guessing a MAGA man tipped off the IRS. But why would the IRS act ? Castro is on their side.


4 posted on 01/10/2024 4:27:14 PM PST by libh8er
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5 posted on 01/10/2024 4:28:11 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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“”John Anthony Castro “”

Johnny has been a naughty boy.

I wonder if some judge somewhere got sick of Johnny’s BS filings and knew about John’s Magic Tax Return Service.

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6 posted on 01/10/2024 4:31:27 PM PST by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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sounds like he may have worked for the Colorado Democratic election machine. He has a conniving mind to cheat and that is in a Democrat’s DNA.


7 posted on 01/10/2024 4:36:23 PM PST by elpadre (y ")
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The Secretaries of the Treasury and Justice Department must have been in the hospital for an elective surgery and that is how the indictment was allowed to go ahead.


8 posted on 01/10/2024 4:40:34 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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Round and round

What goes around comes around


9 posted on 01/10/2024 4:57:09 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (What does the Deep State have on Dims and RINOs? Demand release of all tax returns)
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offered to split the additional refund with taxpayers...


10 posted on 01/10/2024 5:01:28 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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But why would the IRS act ?

I am surprised that the DOJ acted. Maybe they need one example of prosecuting an anti-Trump candidate to show that they are only 99% biased.

11 posted on 01/10/2024 5:12:39 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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Ooops. Maybe there is one honest Trump-supporting FBI/IRS agent after all!

Probably not more than one, though.

12 posted on 01/10/2024 5:46:08 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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I am sure that is true.


13 posted on 01/10/2024 5:47:43 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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The 17 and the 33 stand out. Is it another low IQ cabal message?


14 posted on 01/10/2024 7:49:33 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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“Trump-supporting FBI/IRS agent”

Do you REALLY want partisan affiliations for government agents?

And do you think one rogue agent can bring an indictment if the IRS and Justice don’t sign off on it?


15 posted on 01/10/2024 8:39:35 PM PST by Miami Rebel
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I am pretty sure that it is the taxpayers that will have to pay back the excess refunds.


16 posted on 01/10/2024 8:47:47 PM PST by Revel
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“Do you REALLY want partisan affiliations for government agents?”


It is not what I want. But, I stopped pretending we had unbiased, non-partisan federal law enforcement members quite some time ago.


17 posted on 01/10/2024 9:05:49 PM PST by CFW (I will not comply!)
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Castro? Now where have I heard that name?

Oh that is it, the communist Castros from San Antonio.


18 posted on 01/11/2024 5:55:44 AM PST by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT)
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“Prosecutors claim he ran a virtual tax preparation business that provided customers with tax returns beyond what they were actually owed”

Admittedly, this is a pet peeve. A “return” is the thing you have to file; a “refund” is the money you gave the government in an interest-free loan, and that you hope to get back.


19 posted on 01/11/2024 8:35:34 AM PST by cdcdawg (Our empire of sodomy is failing as it should. How else could it go? )
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Shadenfreude!


20 posted on 01/11/2024 2:48:25 PM PST by Impala64ssa (EVERY TIME A HEMI STARTS, AN EV DIES!)
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