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yortsed snacilbuper

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Thu Jan 26, 2012, 06:23 PM Jan 2012

Author of book about avoiding taxes gets 5 years in prison!

Donald Turner, the author of a book on how to beat U.S. taxes by transferring businesses to phony offshore trusts, was sentenced today in Erie to five years in federal prison and taken directly to jail in handcuffs.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12026/1206234-100.stm#ixzz1kbbaIxGN

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Author of book about avoiding taxes gets 5 years in prison! (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper Jan 2012 OP
probably forgot a key part of how the super-rich avoid taxes unblock Jan 2012 #1
LOVE it! silverweb Jan 2012 #2

unblock

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1. probably forgot a key part of how the super-rich avoid taxes
Thu Jan 26, 2012, 06:26 PM
Jan 2012

they kick a little back to friends in high places so things like this don't happen.

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