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Can you name a single case of it ever happening?

AnthonyMouse 6y ago
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/crime/former-officer-derek-chauvin-wife-charged-with-felony-tax-fraud/89-89eea2ad-28ff-438e-9ab5-cebcc5cda1cc https://www.kare11.com/article/news/crime/former-officer-der... My suspicion is that felony tax fraud would not have been charged there, or maybe even investigated, if he hadn't been implicated in the death of George Floyd. They had their man so they found his crimes. Obviously nobody is going to feel sorry for him, but only getting charged with something because you became a political target over something else entirely is exactly the problem in general. Registering your car in a lower tax state may not be legal but it's not exactly uncommon, and plenty of people probably don't even realize it's illegal.
- gamblor956 6y ago
  What world do you live in where you think that someone who hasn't filed 3 straight years of tax returns wouldn't be charged with a crime? Also, to note: the filing of these charges is unrelated to the Floyd case. Based on the article you linked, there were years of financials that the investigators would have had to go through in order to substantiate the charges they filed. They had to investigate ownership of multiple homes, multiple cars in multiple states, and correspond with tax authorities in several states. This isn't an investigation that they just trumped up because of the Flloyd case; just the correspondence part alone would have taken months, and these charges were filed less than 8 weeks after the Floyd incident based on a substantial record of tax violations. Chauvin was already on their radar for tax fraud. Politics had nothing to do with it. Registering your car in a lower tax state may not be legal but it's not exactly uncommon, and plenty of people probably don't even realize it's illegal. True, but they're not charged with tax fraud because they failed to pay use taxes. RTFA. They were charged with tax fraud for falsely changing their state of tax residency so that they could avoid Minnesota sales/use taxes despite all evidence showing they were still Minnesota residents. TLDR: Chauvin was not a political target. He was just a bad apple, and in addition to beating suspects was also a tax fraud.

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/crime/former-officer-derek-chauvin-wife-charged-with-felony-tax-fraud/89-89eea2ad-28ff-438e-9ab5-cebcc5cda1cc https://www.kare11.com/article/news/crime/former-officer-der... My suspicion is that felony tax fraud would not have been charged there, or maybe even investigated, if he hadn't been implicated in the death of George Floyd. They had their man so they found his crimes. Obviously nobody is going to feel sorry for him, but only getting charged with something because you became a political target over something else entirely is exactly the problem in general. Registering your car in a lower tax state may not be legal but it's not exactly uncommon, and plenty of people probably don't even realize it's illegal.

gamblor956 6y ago
What world do you live in where you think that someone who hasn't filed 3 straight years of tax returns wouldn't be charged with a crime? Also, to note: the filing of these charges is unrelated to the Floyd case. Based on the article you linked, there were years of financials that the investigators would have had to go through in order to substantiate the charges they filed. They had to investigate ownership of multiple homes, multiple cars in multiple states, and correspond with tax authorities in several states. This isn't an investigation that they just trumped up because of the Flloyd case; just the correspondence part alone would have taken months, and these charges were filed less than 8 weeks after the Floyd incident based on a substantial record of tax violations. Chauvin was already on their radar for tax fraud. Politics had nothing to do with it. Registering your car in a lower tax state may not be legal but it's not exactly uncommon, and plenty of people probably don't even realize it's illegal. True, but they're not charged with tax fraud because they failed to pay use taxes. RTFA. They were charged with tax fraud for falsely changing their state of tax residency so that they could avoid Minnesota sales/use taxes despite all evidence showing they were still Minnesota residents. TLDR: Chauvin was not a political target. He was just a bad apple, and in addition to beating suspects was also a tax fraud.