Tax Law
Did Lawyer Use Client Trust Account to Help Client Conceal Income?
Posted Mar 11, 2009 6:49 PM CST
By Martha Neil
An Arkansas lawyer is facing criminal charges for allegedly using his client trust account as a vehicle to help a client avoid income tax.
Oscar Stilley, 45, of Fort Smith is accused in a federal criminal case of conspiring with his client, Lindsey Springer, 43, of Kellyville, Okla., and tax evasion, according to the Tulsa World and the Associated Press.
"The indictment lists numerous transactions involving hundreds of thousands of dollars between Springer and Stilley that flowed through the [client trust] account, including $166,000 paid in August 2005 to buy a motor home and a September 2005 payment of $25,813 to buy a Lexus," the World writes.
Allegedly, neither Stilley nor Springer has filed a tax return since the 1980s.
Neither article includes a response from the defendants.
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Comments
B. McLeod
Mar 12, 2009 7:49 AM CST
These guys are toast. Twenty years of no tax returns is a big problem (if you aren’t a cabinet member).
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Paul
Mar 12, 2009 3:03 PM CST
Did we abrogate Innocent to proven Guilty? When the Government Fears the People we have liberty. When the People fear the Government we have tyranny. Which One do you suppose we have?
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Stephen Stilley
Mar 14, 2009 7:58 AM CST
1. What is the law?
2. How is it applied?
We have been told for many years what the law is by people who do not like the Constitution and have no desire to go by it. They have pulled the wool over our eyes with intimidation and force in many cases. Now with 99% of Americans mis-informed about the Constitution and NO SCHOOL CLASSES TO STUDY THIS DOCUMENT; how long do you think till it really does not matter what the Constitution says? We will simply get whatever some judge says based on what he learned from his law school teachers.
I submit we have lost the “RULE OF LAW” and are now in the “rule of judges” era in the USA.
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