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May 04, 2005

Tax Notes today reports a Department of Justice press release about a California attorney who wouldn't leave bad enough alone.

The release says the lawyer, James Davis, failed to file returns for 1999 through 2001, skipping out on $360,000 of taxes. He tried to hide the income from the IRS via a bogus non-profit, the "California Fire Marshal Officer's Association."

Then things got a little crazy:

The IRS executed search warrants on Davis's residence and business on July 16, 2002. After the IRS executed the warrants, Davis sent threatening letters to various individuals who had information relevant to the IRS's investigation. The letters accused those individuals of filing "false reports with the IRS" and threatened a multi-million dollar lawsuit against them. Davis also threatened to file criminal reports against these individuals naming them as "suspects" and created a website offering a "$10,000 reward for the arrest and conviction" of these individuals.

Ah, the citizen's arrest website. If only Goober had the Internet...

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