1997-06-05 - Re: IRS Hit

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From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1997-06-05 15:55:56 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 23:55:56 +0800

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From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 23:55:56 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: IRS Hit
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At 6:49 AM -0700 6/5/97, John Young wrote:
>5 June 1997, NYP:
>
>A federal judge in Denver has awarded $250,000 in punitive
>damages to a woman whose family business was raided by armed
>Internal Revenue Service agents four weeks after the woman
>insulted an IRS agent.
>
>...
>
>Full story at:
>
>   http://jya.com/irshit.htm

A drop in the bucket for the IRS.  Now if the agent personally had to pay,
there might be some deterent value.  (I note that a 1983 case still has not
been payed.)


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