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August 31, 2010

Wesley Snipes' tax guru's vacation from the tax advice business has been extended. From a Department of Justice press release (no free link yet available):

Four promoters of a Florida-based business that sold illegal tax defiance schemes, American Rights Litigators/Guiding Light of God Ministries (ARL), were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. All four defendants were convicted in May 2010 following a one-month jury trial.

Eddie Ray Kahn, formerly of Sorrento, Fla., was sentenced to 20 years in prison for conspiracy to defraud the United States and to commit mail fraud and one count of mail fraud. Stephen C. Hunter, formerly of Candler, Fla., and Danny True, of Deltona, Fla., were sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiracy to defraud the United States and three counts of mail fraud. Allan J. Tanguay, of Flagler Beach, Fla., was sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiracy to defraud the United States and to commit mail fraud and one count of mail fraud.

Quatloos provides a wonderful description of Mr. Kahn:

Eddie Kahn of "American Rights Litigators” represents the Hee-Haw contingent of the tax protestor movement. “Without any doubt, the most stupid of all the ‘professional’ tax protesters. Mr. Kahn's ‘arguments’ are so utterly juvenile and worthless as to barely worth the space I am using to type this sentence."~ Taxes.com

Eddie caters to the dumbest of the dumb, and his theories for not paying taxes are thus the dumbest of the dumb.

I think that's unfair to Hee Haw and the Immortal Roy Clark, who was much better at his craft than Mr. Kahn was at tax advising. Mr. Snipes choice of tax advisors says something about his business judgment.