[81261] in Cypherpunks
Re: IRS Hit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Thu Jun 5 12:21:31 1997
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970605134956.008db240@pop.pipeline.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 08:42:23 -0700
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Reply-To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
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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