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Thread ID: 3829 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2002-12-03
2002-12-03 20:41 | User Profile
[url=http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/story.jsp?floc=FF-APO-1110&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20021203%2F152480729.htm&sc=1110]Ex-Klan Leader Duke Seeks Deal With Feds[/url]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - An attorney for David Duke says he is trying to negotiate a deal with federal prosecutors to settle allegations of fraud and income tax violations against the former Ku Klux Klan leader.
Duke, a former Louisiana state lawmaker who ran for the U.S. Senate in 1990 and governor in 1991, has been overseas for the past two years.
Attorney James McPherson said Monday that he has been negotiating with the U.S. attorney's office in New Orleans for about four years since a grand jury investigated the $100,000 sale of a list of Duke supporters to Gov. Mike Foster. No one was charged.
``It's nothing unusual for a defense attorney to talk with a prosecutor about whether a client will be indicted and what he will be charged with,'' McPherson said.
U.S. Attorney Jim Letten said only that his investigation of Duke is continuing.
McPherson said prosecutors are looking at two areas: Duke's failure to report the payments from the Foster camp on his income taxes, and possible mail fraud violations stemming from a Duke fund-raising drive.
The lawyer said Duke's accountant failed to report the payments, and as soon as Duke learned of that, he refiled and paid the tax.
Duke was in Russia on a speaking tour in 2000 when federal agents raided his home in Louisiana. Duke has not been hiding out from the law overseas, McPherson said, and is ``tending to his business,'' making speeches and promoting a new book.
12/03/02 15:23
The Feds have a million bureaucratic tax rules, reporting rules, etc., and they can creatively twist them, too. If they want to get you, they'll get you. It seems Soviet America has spawned its own class of exiles.
2002-12-04 03:13 | User Profile
PaleoconAvatar,
You are sadly Right!
The Feds have a million bureaucratic tax rules, reporting rules, etc., and they can creatively twist them, too. If they want to get you, they'll get you. It seems Soviet America has spawned its own class of exiles.
**Worse Yet, our government is now saying the CIA can kill U.S. Citizens living in other countries! Just like the Soviet Russia did in the past!
A Soviet America has Come!!! :unsure:
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