{"id":200406,"date":"2021-04-19T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/04\/19\/your-daily-schadenfreude-7\/"},"modified":"2021-04-19T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T00:14:00","slug":"your-daily-schadenfreude-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/04\/19\/your-daily-schadenfreude-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Daily Schadenfreude"},"content":{"rendered":"

The DoJ has sued Roger Stone for $2 million in unpaid taxes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That’s what they got Al Capone for: <\/p>\n

The Justice Department sued Roger Stone<\/a> on Friday, accusing him of failing to pay more than $2 million in taxes.<\/p>\n

The suit, filed in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, alleges Stone, 67, and his wife, Nydia, dodged $1,590,361 in taxes between 2007 and 2011 and stiffed the IRS of $407,036 in 2018 alone. The couple used a company, Drake Ventures, to \u201cshield their personal income from enforced collection and fund a lavish lifestyle,\u201d according to the Justice Department.<\/p>\n

The DOJ calls Drake Ventures \u201can alter ego of the Stones,\u201d alleging that despite appearances of separation between the couple and the company, \u201cthe Stones dominated and controlled Drake Ventures to such an extent that it does not exist as an independent entity.\u201d The mailing address of the company is the Stone\u2019s house, and the husband and wife each own 50 percent of the LLC, according to the suit. The Florida Secretary of State has twice dissolved the company. <\/p>\n

The Stones allegedly sent checks that listed Roger Stone as the payee to Drake Ventures, upwards of $1 million in total for 2018 and 2019. The company would pay for most of the Stones\u2019 purchases and financial liabilities, including $500,000 in taxes in 2018 and 2019 and the $140,000 down payment on their condominium in February 2019. The company did all this, the DOJ alleges, without keeping necessary documentation. The financial arrangement \u201cevaded and frustrated the IRS\u2019s collection efforts,\u201d DOJ lawyers wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The Stones] used Drake Ventures to receive payments payable to Roger Stone personally, pay their personal expenses, shield their assets, and avoid reporting taxable income to the IRS,\u201d the DOJ alleges.<\/p>\n

In addition to the Stones and Drake Ventures, the Justice Department is also suing the company that owns the Stones\u2019 condominium, Bertran Family Revocable Trust, alleging that the transfer of ownership was a fraudulent transaction meant to further hide the Stones from financial liability. Nydia Stone is sole grantor and sole trustee, the suit says, giving her complete control over it.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How sweet.  The lovely couple is dodging taxes together, just like Carlo Ponti and Sofia Loren, only, of course, we don’t generally associate Ponti and Loren with ineluctable evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The DoJ has sued Roger Stone for $2 million in unpaid taxes. That’s what they got Al Capone for:  The Justice Department sued Roger Stone on Friday, accusing him of failing to pay more than $2 million in taxes. The suit, filed in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, alleges Stone, 67, and his wife, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1052,969,978,1019,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-evil","category-politics","category-schadenfreude","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}