I would be laughing too if the damage done by scumbag protestors was funny
http://www.mlmwatchdog.com/Report_G_tax_scam.html
HOT AGAIN FOR 2007!
INCOME TAXES ILLEGAL? PROMOTERS RUN A RACKET WITHIN A TAX SCAM
TAX PROTESTOR LEADERS MAKE MEGA $$$ OFF SELLING B.S.! THEN YOU GO TO JAIL!
The last two years I have been trying to help folks who got suckered by Tax Evasion Guru's. How! Giving evidence to prisons and probation officers to try to help get innocent folks out of jail. Why? Because these folks (innocents) were scammed. Doctors, mothers, nice folk that are in jail and lost their house, cars and children because of fines and prison. Why do this? Because I believe the U.S. Government should move faster to shut down these scumbag tax evasion promoters and put them in jail - FAST!
Network Marketers being sweet independent souls by nature are suckers for this BS. Sandy BotkinS CPA, JD and your editor fought this crapola in the middle 90s and it coming back again! Global Prosperity put bullet holes in my car. A big problem is we cant search the tax records of most of these Scammers making money off of selling you information that income taxes are not legal. If we could wed would find out that most of them do pay taxes. They are just suckering others into going to jail so they can make money off of tapes, CD, books, and worthless legal fees! YOU ARE BEING SCAMMED AND IT CAN PUT YOU IN JAIL!
If you want to tax protest the MLM WatchDogs advice is move outside the U.S. Why? It will cost you at least $500,000 in legal fees to get where wealth airline pilot, Mr. Cheek did before the Supreme Court! Other countries like in South America for that, you could probably buy off a high court! THE U.S. NO WAY!
THE SUPREME COURT HAS THE FINAL SAY PERIOD ZIP ZERO
A BIG BRICK WALL for tax protesters is found in the Cheek Doctrine (Supreme Court decided January 8th 1991 with respect to arguments about "constitutionality." Under the Doctrine, the mistaken belief that the Sixteenth Amendment was not properly ratified and the mistaken belief that the Federal income tax is otherwise unconstitutional are not treated as beliefs that one is not violating the "tax law" i.e., these errors are not treated as being caused by the "complexity of the tax law."
In the Cheek case the Supreme Court stated on Jan 8th 1991: Claims that some of the provisions of the tax code are unconstitutional are submissions of a different order. They do not arise from innocent mistakes caused by the complexity of the Internal Revenue Code. Rather, they reveal full knowledge of the provisions at issue and a studied conclusion, however wrong, that those provisions are invalid and unenforceable. Thus, in this case, Cheek paid his taxes for years, but after attending various seminars and based on his own study, he concluded that the income tax laws could not constitutionally require him to pay a tax. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheek_v._United_States
The Court continued: As we see it, he is in no position to claim that his good-faith belief about the validity of the Internal Revenue Code negates willfulness or provides a defense to criminal prosecution under 7201 and 7203. Of course, Cheek was free in this very case to present his claims of invalidity and have them adjudicated, but, like defendants in criminal cases in other contexts who "willfully" refuse to comply with the duties placed upon them by the law, he must take the risk of being wrong.
WatchDog Note: Cheek actually hung himself by pointing out that arguments about constitutionality of Federal income tax laws "reveal full knowledge of the provisions at issue and a studied conclusion, however wrong, that those provisions are invalid and unenforceable," (Quote by the Court).
Click the link below Study this Warning page for law enforcement on Tax Protesters and 16th Amendment Junk. Notice the attempted TAX bombings? Great join one of the Fringe tax protester groups and get put on a list of people that are nut cases for forever! Are you nuts! Run from any of these assholes who will get you put in Jail!
(we have the best tax system in the world! Do I love it...no! But have been to 90% of countries in the world and there is only one I prefer to pay taxes in....the U.S. Small link but click study history
Scammer "Judge Rizzo" and Wife Sentenced to Prison
TAX EVASION SCAM
The government will not tolerate abusive tax schemes that use offshore accounts to illegally escape taxes, said Nancy Jardini, IRS Chief, Criminal Investigation. Those Americans who file accurate, honest and timely returns can be assured that the government will hold accountable those who dont. It is tragic when a former member of the judiciary, charged with upholding the law, encourages others to violate those laws, said Paul K. Charlton, U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona.
As described in the plea agreements, from 1999 to 2002 John Rizzo was a prominent speaker at offshore seminars hosted by Institute of Global Prosperity (Global Prosperity). At these seminars, Mr. Rizzo promoted the Millennium 2000 Reliance Defense Program (Millennium Program) to thousands of people resulting in more than $4 million in sales revenue for the Rizzos. The program included written materials taxpayers could use to establish purported good faith reliance defenses against potential criminal tax prosecutions. At an earlier court hearing, a videotape was played showing Mr. Rizzo appearing at Global Prosperity seminars wearing judicial robes and portraying himself as a former judge and an expert on tax law.
THE CROOKED JUDGE SOLD OUT FOR MONEY SCAMMING INNOCENT PEOPLE!
MANY OF WHICH ARE IN JAIL TODAY FOR SWALLOWING HIS TAX EVASION BS!
The Rizzos also admitted that they provided opinion letters, materials and documentation that claimed, among other things, that taxpayers could lawfully stop filing income tax returns and stop their employers from withholding income taxes from their wages. This claim was based upon the long-rejected notion that the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution had not been legally ratified.
The Rizzos further admitted that they concealed the income they earned from the sales of the Millennium Program through various means. They used offshore bank accounts, third-party merchant accounts to process credit card sales, and requested payments from customers in cash, money orders, and checks with the payee lines left blank. John Rizzo also admitted to knowingly providing false and misleading testimony to a grand jury by testifying that he and his wife filed federal tax returns for the years 1999, 2000, and 2001, when in fact, he and his wife had not filed such tax returns as required by law. Ed Note: More Crooks Go Down - Keep reading!
TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 2005
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GLOBAL PROSPERITY PRINCIPAL CONVICTED OF TAX FRAUD
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Eileen J. OConnor, Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division, U.S. Department of Justice, John McKay, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington, and Nancy Jardini, Chief, Internal Revenue (IRS) Service Criminal Investigation Division, announced today that at the federal courthouse in Seattle, Washington, Dwayne Robare pled guilty to superseding information charging him with income tax evasion for the 2000 tax year.
On May 12, 2004, Mr. Robare was indicted-along with alleged Institute of Global Prosperity founders Daniel Anderson, David Struckman, Lorenzo (Zo) Lamantia (also known as Lorenzo Milano), and Kuldip Singh-on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States by impeding the IRS. Mr. Robare faces a maximum potential sentence of five years in jail, followed by up to three years of supervised release, $250,000 in fines, and liability for the costs of prosecution
PYRAMID SCHEME MONEY MAVEN TO BE SENTENCED
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TAX
TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2003 (202) 514-2007
JURY CONVICTS INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL PROSPERITY PARTICIPANT OF CONSPIRACY TO STRUCTURE CURRENCY TRANSACTIONS
WASHINGTON, D.C. Assistant Attorney General Eileen J. OConnor of the Tax Division announced that a federal jury in Seattle returned a guilty verdict against Laura Jean Marie Struckman, a participant in the Institute of Global Prosperity (IGP). She was convicted of conspiracy to structure a financial transaction.
(Ed. Note: Primary Action in prosecuting Pyramid Scheme)
Trial evidence showed that Struckman, formerly of Renton, Washinton, and an unindicted co-conspirator engaged in a 14-month conspiracy from June 1997 through August 1998 to evade currency reporting requirements by making cash withdrawals of over $960,000 in 122 separate transactions, none of which exceeded $10,000. The evidence further established that Struckman was the co-signer on three nominee bank accounts, opened at the U.S. Bank of Washington, into which she and another individual deposited over $3.7 million, earned from IGP, during the time period of the conspiracy.
Struckman faces a maximum statutory penalty of five years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. She is scheduled to be sentenced by the Chief U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour Aug. 8, 2003.
(Ed. Note: Secondary Actions in prosecuting Pyramid Scheme)
In other cases related to IGP, Jeffrey and Shoshana Szuch and Margo Jordan all pleaded guilty to using foreign bank accounts to commit tax evasion. According to indictments in those cases, the government showed that IGP was an organization that hosted offshore seminars for promoters of abusive trusts and anti-tax schemes. IGP was also known by other names, including Global Prosperity Marketing Group (GPMG) and Global Prosperity Group (GPG). Members of IGP marketed and sold various IGP products, including an "education course" named "Global 1" priced at $1,250; a ticket to a three-day offshore seminar named "Global 2" priced at $6,250; and a ticket to a five-day offshore seminar named "Global 3" priced at $18,750. The indictments alleged that the Global 2 and Global 3 seminars brought together portions of the IGP membership to hear, among other things, presentations by individuals and organizations involved in the sale and operation of foreign trusts designed in part to conceal income from the Internal Revenue Service.
Ed. Note: As you can see this illegal Pyramid Scheme rolled some serious money out of the pockets of suckers who wanted to believe taxation was not legal. On top of that the Pyramid Scheme operators scammed life savings investment money right and left from Pyramid Scheme participants who believed their 10% returns (a month) were real.
The Struckman case was investigated by agents of IRS Criminal Investigation. It was prosecuted by Tax Division trial attorneys Mark T. Odulio and Christopher J. Maietta.
Quatlosers Hall of Shame
Thurston Bell
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Thurston Bell
Our 100Q Woopoo chips commemorate promoters of tax scams.
Tax scam artist and Quatlooser Thurston Bell (no relation to millionaire Thurston Howell III, pictured right) has become known as the chief advocate of the 861 Argument which is basically that nobody knows what income is, therefore nobody except a foreigner has to pay tax on it. Presumably, if nobody could define what air is, Thurston and his follows would immediately stop breathing.
Well, were not going to waste our breath exploding Thurstons theory that is done below along with the U.S. Department of Justices press release announcing that they are seeking an injunction against Thurston Bells tax scamming activities.
It is a lot more fun to talk about the dispute between Thurston and fellow Qualtooser Rick Haraka a/k/a Rick Bryan. You see, Haraka runs a website at http://www.taxgate.com and Thurston participated. They had a falling out, Thurston left and formed http://www.tax-gate.com and the National Institute for Taxation Education (a/k/a NITE or We Are In The Dark). After the split-up, things turned acrimonious, with Thurston claiming that Bryan hacked into his computers, and Bryan claiming that Bell has a serious mental disorder. Thurston now claims that he was the original author of the www.taxgate.com scam, but Haraka claims that he was the one who originally came up with the scam.
According to Haraka:
We encourage those who have worked with Thurston Bell or are currently working with Bell and are:
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fed up with Thurston Bell’s poor and unprofessional casework.... usually done and delivered to you at the very last minute so that you don’t have the time to proof-read it and correct the bad grammar, misspelled words, filter out the obnoxious comments towards the very people he is trying to elicit help from, etc. etc. (Very well documented!)
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afraid of being left out on a limb when it comes time for your IRS meeting or interviews (it is well documented by those who have used Thurston Bell in the past how he left them in a severe bind and all alone when the time came for very important meetings and IRS responses)
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tired of his immature, paranoid, and volatile personality
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worn-out by his continual and unexpected severe ‘mood swings’
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weary of being embarrassed by him amongst your friends, family, and associates for his tirades and his ‘superior’ attitude
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tired of wasting hours on the phone to get a simple 2 minute question answered... if you can reach him at all!
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having to continually apologize for and remedy his damaging and careless actions..... much to your surprise and dismay, as he is busy at work doing the same thing somewhere else..... and while you are still getting the first one patched up!
Thurston Bell has repeatedly made it know that he expects researchers 20+ years his senior in experience to drop what they are doing and help him ‘perfect’ his unproven tactics and then recognize him as the leader!
Thurston Bell also has a relentless push for a “Unified Leadership”.... which ANYONE would agree is a good strategy...... no argument there at all! Except for one problem...... Thurston Bell is not content unless it is..... guess who?...... You are right..... BELL HIMSELF!
Thurston Bell wants to be the nationally recognized LEADER of the income tax law research field! Folks, in the words of 98% of the income tax community..... this ‘BELL’ is CRACKED.