May 9, 2023

Justice Department Seeks to Shut Down Nine Florida Tax Preparers

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Monday, May 8, 2023
Justice Department Seeks to Shut Down Nine Florida Tax Preparers

The United States filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida seeking to bar nine Florida tax return preparers and their associated business from assisting in the preparing of federal income tax returns for others.

The complaint alleges that Richard Louis, Teddy Davis, James Merrill, Daniel Ouku, Demetrius Knowles, Harold Bornelus, Joseph Garrett, Marlyne Wah and Romeo Davis prepared and filed thousands of federal income tax returns for customers through or in connection with the unincorporated entity known as Taxman. According to the complaint, one scheme used by the defendants was to claim fraudulent Residential Energy Credits on their customers’ tax returns. Louis and Taxman also allegedly falsified and overstated business and itemized deductions on their customers’ tax returns and prepared tax returns for customers claiming the incorrect filing status. As alleged in the complaint, defendants’ pattern of preparing returns that understate their customers’ taxes or that overstate their customers’ refunds has resulted in defendants’ customers receiving refunds to which they are not entitled. As further alleged in the complaint, based on the returns it has examined, the IRS estimates that the United States has lost millions of dollars in tax revenue as a result of defendants’ actions.

Deputy Assistant Attorney General David A. Hubbert of the Justice Department’s Tax Division made the announcement.

Taxpayers seeking a return preparer should remain vigilant against unscrupulous tax preparers. The IRS offers tips on how to accurately file returns and how to choose a tax return preparer, as well as steps taxpayers can take to get a jumpstart on filing.

Taxpayers seeking assistance can access the IRS’s free directory of federal tax preparers. The IRS also has programs offering free basic return preparation for qualifying seniors and individuals with low to moderate income). In addition, IRS Free File, a public-private partnership, offers free online tax preparation and filing options on IRS partner websites for individuals whose adjusted gross income is under $72,000. For individuals whose income is over that threshold, IRS Free File offers electronical federal tax forms that can be filled out and filed online for free.

In the past decade, the Department of Justice Tax Division has obtained injunctions against hundreds of unscrupulous tax preparers. Information about these cases is available on the Justice Department’s website. An alphabetical listing of persons enjoined from preparing returns and promoting tax schemes can be found on this page. If you believe that one of the enjoined persons or businesses may be violating an injunction, please contact the Tax Division with details.



https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-seeks-shut-down-nine-florida-tax-preparers

May 7, 2023

At least 9 killed, including gunman, after Texas mall shooting

Source: WaPo

A gunman opened fire on an outlet mall in a Dallas suburb on Saturday afternoon, killing at least eight people, including children, and injuring at least seven others, authorities said.

A police officer who was in the area on an unrelated call heard gunshots before he “engaged the suspect,” fatally shooting the gunman, the city of Allen, Tex., said in a statement.

Authorities believe the shooter acted alone and “don’t believe there is another threat at this time,” Allen Police Chief Brian Harvey said Saturday evening.

Children were among those killed at Allen Premium Outlets, said Rep. Keith Self (R), who represents the area and said local authorities briefed him by phone after the shooting. Self said unconfirmed reports of a second shooter were false.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/07/texas-allen-outlets-shooting-dallas/

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Geeezuzzz! Now it’s NINE human beings !!!

May 2, 2023

Blood, Swear & Tears were blackmailed by the Nixon admin.

According to a new film.


Interesting.. I never heard about this. I figured that they just fell out of popularity like a lot of bands. The public is fickle.

I don't at all remember any kind of backlash against them. I just grew away from their pop songs.

The under 30 crowd wasn't so much anti-Red as anti-war. This doesn't smell right.

Looks like they're milking the victimhood for everything they can. Very American!


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May 2, 2023

Plastic People by Birth Control (in honor of plastic in our bodies) as God intended

I’m sure! Right, God ?

1975 German prog rock

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April 29, 2023

"Bobble" Head Ron. Meatball DeSantis in action.

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The guys seems kind of effeminate in ways.. Perhaps he's afraid of the word "Gay" for a secret reason.

April 28, 2023

Tobacco Road - Nashville Teens 1964

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April 27, 2023

Florida's conservative chief justice once affirmed abortion protections

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a strict abortion ban hours after it overwhelmingly passed the Republican-led legislature this month — yet whether the law can take effect hinges on a case before the state Supreme Court.

At issue is a provision in the Florida Constitution intended to protect the right to privacy, added by voters decades ago and long interpreted as a safeguard against abortion restrictions in the third-most-populous state.

But while the state’s high court has been transformed by DeSantis into a conservative stronghold, even the chief justice — whose nomination was cheered by antiabortion activists — has acknowledged that the privacy clause protects abortion.

A paragraph in a little-noticed 2004 article by Carlos Muñiz, then a private attorney and now chief justice, is being cited by abortion rights advocates in the case before the high court that will ultimately decide the fate of abortion access in the state.

“One purpose of the privacy amendment clearly was to give the abortion right a textual foundation in our state constitution,” Muñiz wrote in the article for the Journal of the James Madison Institute.

Olivia Cappello, a spokeswoman for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a nationwide umbrella group, declined to comment on Muñiz’s article but said the facts of the law are clear.

“Florida’s constitution contains strong protections for the right to medical privacy,” she said in a statement. “Those protections extend to abortion, as many legal scholars — including the author of this law review article — have acknowledged.”

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April 26, 2023

John Stewart on Crossfire with Carlson & Begala 2004

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12:20 “You know what’s interesting though?” Stewart replied. “You’re as big a DICK on your show as you are on any show.”

April 25, 2023

The Damned - Alone Again Or (1987) ( Love cover)

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Nice sound, pretty much a smoother, glossier version of the original.
A little more adventure would've been nice.

April 23, 2023

"Libertarianism" sounds good, sounds like 'freedom'. And it is sort of:

* Freedom for corporations to bilk you with no legal remedies for you.

* Freedom for corporations to buy up and privatize beach front land - sorry, um, what's a surfboard?

* Freedom for corporations to build enormous hotels in the middle of a high elevation, pristine meadow (say Tuolumne?).

* Freedom for corporations to track your every online movement, it's for the good of business and the economy of course. (see Ebay and Facebook).

* Freedom for corporations to buy up competing businesses and monopolize control of a single market. (Yes, I know, it's already happening with the GOP Congress we've had.)

* Freedom for your crazy neighbor to own as many firearms as he wants - ah, but you get to shoot him with your AR-15 after he's already killed your kids, yay, revenge is so sweet!

* Freedom for doctors not to treat an emergency patient because they don't have the right insurance, or enough, or no cash, no credit card, no house to seize.

* Freedom to sue the person who has no auto insurance and no money who hits your car because your insurance no longer offers "uninsured motorist coverage" because under a libertarian government no one is legally required to buy liability insurance - yay!

* No EPA to slowdown the installation of a furnace to burn all of your garbage when someone elses' house is downwind. This is especially great news for the hazardous waste creators like chemical factories, forges, tire dumps and hospitals.

* No messing with any unions!

* "Stand your ground" will the be the law of the land. But, okay, most of the land will be owned by mega-corporations.

* No maternity leave pay!

* Privatize courts will always let you win as long as you're supplying the payroll.

* Privatized police forces will keep you safe from the other privatized police forces. You need "protection", right?

* Rand Paul looks really good with a Hitler mustache, don;t you think?