[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

If it's a $75k lien and not a $7500, I actually find that comforting, in a way. It was hard to imagine anyone of his stature being unable to scrape up such a small amount of money! (Still...)

[Amelia]

Someone had posted on another thread a few days ago (and I'm not even going to try to find the link now) that Dr. Keyes receives $15,000 per speaking engagement.

I don't know if that's true or not, but according to his webpage, he apparently has quite a few speaking engagements. If it is true, just one speaking engagement would more than pay the tax lien. (The only media source I've seen put it at $7,500, so I'm wondering if quid misheard the radio report - it's the sort of thing *I* would do...)

[deport]

Rumors and disinformation will abound until Keyes steps forward and corrects the errors.... I haven't read this thread so don't know if the following excerpt has been posted or not which is from an AP article 8/6/04

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He still owes $524,169.63 from his two presidential bids, according to federal elections records. He also owes $7,481.99 in unpaid state income taxes in his home state of Maryland, according to court records. The state filed a lien against Keyes in December 2001 for those unpaid taxes