Shady Posted March 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2009 Trade nominee Ron Kirk agrees to pay back taxes WASHINGTON – Ron Kirk, nominated as U.S. Trade Representative in the Obama administration, owes an estimated $10,000 in back taxes from earlier in the decade and has agreed to make his payments, the Senate Finance Committee said Monday. The committee said the taxes arise from Kirk's handling of speaking fees that he donated to his alma mater, and for his deduction of the full cost of season tickets to the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team. AP Now beyond humorous, and beyond absurd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punked Posted March 3, 2009 Report Share Posted March 3, 2009 Trade nominee Ron Kirk agrees to pay back taxesWASHINGTON – Ron Kirk, nominated as U.S. Trade Representative in the Obama administration, owes an estimated $10,000 in back taxes from earlier in the decade and has agreed to make his payments, the Senate Finance Committee said Monday. The committee said the taxes arise from Kirk's handling of speaking fees that he donated to his alma mater, and for his deduction of the full cost of season tickets to the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team. AP Now beyond humorous, and beyond absurd. Look's like he has Palin size problems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shady Posted March 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2009 Look's like he has Palin size problems Yeah, except it's a tax bill from 10 years ago, not one given to him for the first time, for this fiscal year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punked Posted March 3, 2009 Report Share Posted March 3, 2009 Yeah, except it's a tax bill from 10 years ago, not one given to him for the first time, for this fiscal year. Umm 2006-2007 was 2 years ago. He has the same problem as Palin in undeclared income, except his has to do with speaking payments which he gave away not money he stole from the people of his state. I say they are smaller than Palin problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shady Posted March 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 A great column on Tim Geithner's hypocrisy. For sheer chutzpah, it would be hard to top the scene on Capitol Hill yesterday. As Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner vowed to go after wealthy Americans who shield money in tax havens, the man wielding the chairman's gavel in the House Ways and Means hearing was Democrat Charlie Rangel. Perfect together. Geithner and Rangel are two peas in a pod when it comes to dodging their own taxes, and neither is embarrassed about demanding others pay up. Geithner now preaches the religion of regulation in the financial markets, yet, in his former job, he was supposedly standing guard at the epicenter of the meltdown. As chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, he was the central bank's eyes and ears on Wall Street. Apparently he was blind and deaf, to judge how the banks marketed toxic junk. Meanwhile, Geithner's personal tax history is shocking for a man now in charge of the Internal Revenue Service. His tax delinquencies, with interest and penalties, came to about $43,000, some of which he paid when he was audited in 2006 but most of which he didn't pay until he knew Obama would give him a job. I wonder how the agents who audited him feel about working for him? Daily News Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shady Posted March 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2009 Charlie Rangel cornered and questioned about his corruption. Priceless. Someone needs to remind him, that he's paid by the taxpayers, so it is their business. A-hole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oleg Bach Posted March 9, 2009 Report Share Posted March 9, 2009 Charlie Rangel cornered and questioned about his corruption. Priceless. Someone needs to remind him, that he's paid by the taxpayers, so it is their business. A-hole. When a person smiles constantly - he is to be as trusted as much as a grinning hyena. A man that is never serious is a man that feels the meloncoly of remorse. Shameless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bush_cheney2004 Posted March 10, 2009 Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 When a person smiles constantly - he is to be as trusted as much as a grinning hyena. A man that is never serious is a man that feels the meloncoly of remorse. Shameless. Smiling faces sometimes pretend to be your friend Smiling faces show no traces of the evil that lurks within Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes They don't tell the truth uh Smiling faces, smiling faces Tell lies and I got proof - Motown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shady Posted March 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Not a tax cheat, at least that we know of, but Obama's lost another appointee. Freeman's out A statement from ODNI just now: Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair announced today that Ambassador Charles W. Freeman Jr. has requested that his selection to be Chairman of the National Intelligence Council not proceed. Director Blair accepted Ambassador Freeman’s decision with regret. Link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shady Posted March 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 FBI raids office of D.C. CTO, Obama appointee Federal agents this morning are searching the office Washington, D.C.'s Chief Technology Officer. The search is part of "an ongoing investigation," said a spokeswoman for the FBI's D.C. Field Office, Lindsay Gotwin, said. She declined to comment further on the raid of office, at 1 Judiciary Square. The outgoing Chief Technology Officer, Vivek Kundra, was appointed last week Chief Information Officer by the Obama administration. His last day at the city government office was February 4, a spokeswoman for D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, Leslie Kershaw, said. He was appointed to the Washington post in 2007. Politico Has there ever been a President who's had more trouble with his appointees than Barack Obama? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkman Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 Perhaps not, but there might not have been a more inexperienced president in history either(I can hear the Obama supporters revving up google to prove me wrong, good luck!). The FBI interviewed Obama back in January or December, and it got very little coverage. Ditto with this FBI action, it seems. Pathetic, the dem supporters in the media dream about having an FBI investigation of Bush, but when it's their guy nobody sees anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shady Posted March 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 Just when you think the highest level of incompetence has been reached, the Obama Adminstration reaches just a little more! Third Top Treasury Pick Withdraws From Consideration Democratic sources say that H. Rodgin Cohen, a partner in the New York law firm Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, and the leading candidate for Deputy Treasury Secretary, has withdrawn from consideration. … Cohen had risen to the top after the withdrawal last week of expected deputy treasury secretary pick Annette Nazareth. Nazareth was forced to withdraw from consideration for the deputy treasury slot because senators made it clear she would face tough questioning over her time at the Securities and Exchange Commission — tenure that overlapped with the agency’s failure to catch Bernie Madoff. And the candidate for Undersecretary for International Affairs, Caroline Atkinson, was told she had to withdraw after a “tax problem” was revealed early in the vetting process, according to officials. ABC News Hope, ineptitude you can believe in! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punked Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 Just when you think the highest level of incompetence has been reached, the Obama Adminstration reaches just a little more! Third Top Treasury Pick Withdraws From Consideration Democratic sources say that H. Rodgin Cohen, a partner in the New York law firm Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, and the leading candidate for Deputy Treasury Secretary, has withdrawn from consideration. … Cohen had risen to the top after the withdrawal last week of expected deputy treasury secretary pick Annette Nazareth. Nazareth was forced to withdraw from consideration for the deputy treasury slot because senators made it clear she would face tough questioning over her time at the Securities and Exchange Commission — tenure that overlapped with the agency’s failure to catch Bernie Madoff. And the candidate for Undersecretary for International Affairs, Caroline Atkinson, was told she had to withdraw after a “tax problem” was revealed early in the vetting process, according to officials. ABC News Hope, ineptitude you can believe in! Yah can you believe someone doesn't want every little thing they have ever done all over the news and posted on the Internet by people who could never do the job they act all high and just about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkman Posted March 13, 2009 Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 Yah can you believe someone doesn't want every little thing they have ever done all over the news and posted on the Internet by people who could never do the job they act all high and just about? People who live their lives honorably do not have to worry about such things. To quote a Johnny Cash lyric, lies have to be covered up, the truth can run around naked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punked Posted March 13, 2009 Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 People who live their lives honorably do not have to worry about such things. To quote a Johnny Cash lyric, lies have to be covered up, the truth can run around naked. Have seen some of the things these people are being hung out to dry for? Being paid for speaking but donating that money to charity and claiming that wrong on there taxes. I mean honestly it is like a public audit, sometimes people make mistakes. However these people are having their careers ruined for a 500-1000 dollar mistake over the last 10 years. It has nothing to with being honourable. They are not the ones who ran the country into the group but the media is all over them. I wouldn't want any part in that either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shady Posted June 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2009 Pick for Protocol Post Corrects Failure to File Taxes in 2 Years President Obama’s choice as chief of protocol for the State Department, a position that carries the status of an ambassadorship, did not file tax returns for 2005 and 2006, errors she corrected last November. The New York Times If only the rest of us could commit such an "error" and not file tax returns for two years in a row. Hope n change! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkman Posted June 19, 2009 Report Share Posted June 19, 2009 Geez, just how crappy is their vetting process? Or maybe they actually look for some tax dirt. "His resume looks a little light, but then I dug up his tax records, and suddenly this guy looks like a real hellcat!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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