Lottery rigging accomplice used Wisconsin payout for offshore tax scam

Comment #4

OneTrickpony — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 13:52:59 GMT

I agree. He may have gotten a slap on the wrist in this case, but the IRS plays hardball.

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music* — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 08:13:15 GMT

eddessaknight, Well warden that's where the money is is no longer true. Electronic finances have replaced cash money. Most get their cash from the ATMs. Branches have very little cash on hand.

Crime does not pay.

When I win the Lottery I will be a proud taxpayer. I am enjoying the life of an American citizen. I can drive anywhere in the lower 48 without a passport. I am protected by police and the Justice system. My votes count.

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eddessaknight — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 23:53:44 GMT

Big cheese $$$ big bait, big money opportunity = big schemes scams that will inevitably follow and has world wide

When asked why the great Brooklyn bank robber, Willie Sutton, kept on robbing banks, he answered point blank without hesitation:

Well warden that's where the money is

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Bleudog101 — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 23:32:49 GMT

Maybe I missed it, but the IRS will definitely take this up.

Lottery rigging accomplice used Wisconsin payout for offshore tax scam

Lottery Post — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 22:53:12 GMT

After Robert Rhodes collected a Wisconsin Lottery jackpot that had been rigged by his friend Eddie Tipton, he used the windfall for an investment scheme that produced another wave of undeserved government money, court records show.

Rhodes, an accomplice in a scandal that has shaken state lotteries, recently explained under oath how he used the $783,000 payout to receive an additional $180,000 in bogus tax refunds. The Texas businessman sent his lottery winnings offshore to buy a phony insuran... [ More ]