The Lord made him avoid paying his taxes

[CatWoman]

For 12 years, Dr. Louis Genard, a Slidell dentist, went to imaginative lengths to avoid paying taxes. Unfortunately for him, the Internal Revenue Service and federal prosecutors don't give extra points for creativity.

Despite renouncing his U.S. citizenship and alternately declaring himself a "citizen of the Republic of Louisiana" and an "ambassador to heaven," Genard's attempts at diplomatic immunity were thwarted Wednesday morning when a federal judge sentenced him to 2 1/2 years in prison.

U.S. District Judge A.J. McNamara ordered him to pay $155,683 in restitution and to reimburse the government for prosecution costs. Genard also will be under federal supervision for at least a year after his release.

Genard, 57, was found guilty of three counts of "willfully failing to file income tax returns" by a federal jury in October. He could have gotten three years in prison for each count.

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Then in something of a swan song during the pretrial stages of the recent criminal case in July, Genard filed a motion seeking dismissal of the charges on the grounds that his status as "Ambassador and Citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven under its King Jesus the Christ" gave him diplomatic immunity from federal jurisdiction. The motion was rejected.

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-10/1212039560320500.xml&coll=1

[baldguy]

1. Parasite

typical Republican

[Solly Mack]

2. snicker

[Yogi]

3. I hope rots in jail.

n/t

[mikeytherat]

4. Religion: (one of the) last refuge of a scoundrel

"Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and render unto God what is God's."

Thanks for playing, asshole, and enjoy prison.

mikey_the_rat

[DemoTex]

5. Sounds a bit like the scam in Texas a few years back (mostly airline pilots).

The participants got sham degrees and ordinations from a sham theological institution. Each would then start a sham church, into which all of his/her salary would go. The pastor/pilots would then claim that money to be tax exempt. The IRS did not worship their claim, and most went to bad-ass federal slammers.

[tanyev]

6. The Lord didn't help him avoid getting caught?

The Lord didn't give him a friendly jury?
The Lord didn't smite down the judge, the IRS and federal prosecutors?

I guess his Lord set him up to take the fall. Maybe he should use some of that jail time to rethink his deity.

[pitohui]

7. i've been wondering how much of this is a mental health issue

i've been unable to figure out just how the heck he expected to get away with this