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HIGH-SPEED TRAFFIC ADVISOR SENTENCED

February 24, 2006

Cynthia Neun, ex-honey to famed tax scamster Irwin Schiff, was sentenced to 68 months in the federal pen yesterday on 15 federal tax, conspiracy and theft charges:

LAS VEGAS The former girlfriend of anti-income tax crusader and author Irwin Schiff is going to federal prison for five years and eight months for advising people that no law required them to file federal income tax.
52-year-old Cynthia Neun ("Noon") never testified at trial -- and didn't address the judge who used sentencing today to deride Schiff's anti-tax theories as a bigger fiction than the tooth fairy.

Neun's lawyer says she'll appeal.

Neun also got three years probation and was ordered to pay more than a million dollars in restitution and several years of back taxes, interest and penalties.

Ms. Neun was on the slow end of a 100-mile-per-hour cell phone call featured in my favorite Tax Update post. Let's go down memory lane:

The chase involving Mr. Thompson, at speeds of 80 to
100 miles an hour, began about 9:30 a.m. yesterday
when federal agents went to Mr. Thompson's home to
arrest him.

The pursuit quickly moved from residential streets onto
Interstate 5, the main highway running the length of
the state. It ended when the California Highway Patrol
laid a strip of spikes on the road to flatten the tires on
Mr. Thompson's car.

As he was trying to elude arrest, Mr. Thompson placed
a cellphone call to Cindy Nuen, an associate in the
movement that denies the legitimacy of the tax system,
according to an e-mail message she sent to other
members yesterday.

"I'm going to make them take me," she quoted Mr.
Thompson as saying, adding that she asked what
she should do.

"Just put the word out," Mr. Thompson said. Then,
apparently having run over the spikes, he said "they
got my tires, they got my car. Now they are out. They
have their guns pointed - O.K., they got me."

Good luck where you're going, Ms. Neun. We'll get the word out for you.

Ms. Neun's long sentence doesn't bode well for Mr. Schiff, the kingpin of the operation.

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