Janine Callender
AP English and Comp
Mrs. Berry
June 1, 2015
In Defense of The Federal Mafia
Irwin Schiff’s The Federal Mafia: How It Illegally Imposes and Unlawful Collects Income Taxes is a how-to manual on how to stop paying income taxes. Schiff wrote this book in 1980 while in prison for failing to file income tax reports. Schiff has been in jail several times for tax evasion and other crimes involving taxes. Schiff’s book was intended to motivate people to fight income taxes. This book was banned after the information in it was declared fraudulent by the federal court. The Federal Mafia has received much criticism because its intention is to teach people how to avoid income taxes, however, this book provides information that
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American libraries published an article titled “FTRF Files Amicus Opposing U.S. Ban on Anti-Tax Book in which District Judge Lloyd D. George notes that “it is illegal under tax code to engage ‘fraudulent or deceptive conduct that substantially interferes with the proper administration of the internal revenue laws’”. (American Libraries Magazine 1) This made it illegal for Schiff to write a book that contained fraudulent information on tax evasion because it would interfere with the IRS collecting taxes from hundreds of Americans who read Schiff’s book. Declaring that the book contains fraudulent information allows it to be banned appropriately.
The court declared that Schiff’s book was part of a tax evasion scheme and therefore they could prohibit the sale of the book. In a New York Times article titled Court Says Author Can 't Sell His Book on Evading Taxes Judge Procter Hug Jr. wrote that Schiff has “been selling products that help…customers engage in illegal activity,” and “is making fraudulent claims” regarding the legality of income taxes. (Johnston 1) Anyone is allowed to sell Schiff’s book excluding Schiff and his associates. It seems pointless to ban a book that is still allowed to be sold. Schiff’s ideas and thoughts are still being spread.
Schiff argues that income taxes are completely voluntary
The content of this book is best described on page 17 where Matthews describes speaking to a congressman in the Democratic cloakroom about writing the book. "Quietly, I confided to one of the members that I was writing a book about the rules of politics, including all the tricks I had overheard in the off-the-record hideaways like this. He look at me, a crease of pain crossing his forehead, and said with dead seriousness, 'Why do you want to go and give them away?" By describing the concern of this individual, Matthews conveys to the reader that he's actually going to give detailed accounts of how politicians operate in Washington. The congressman is concerned about what the public would think if they had detailed knowledge of how politicians operate, and that's actually the most compelling reason for reading this book.
Nick used the net worth analysis on him and calculated that he is not reporting about $33,000 of income. The indirect net worth method was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1954 in Holland v U.S. as a valid method of gathering evidence for conviction of tax evasion. Nick prepared his report to the Commissioner’s office outlining the suspicious facts concerning Richard Onner. Coincidentally, not long after Nick found Richard’s Swiss bank account he died from impact from a model airplane which exploded leaving Nick’s body charred. Later in the book we find out that Richard Onner used Henry’s shady techniques for illegal activities. Richard was arrested for tax fraud on a personal level and he confessed that the IRS Commissioner, Jimmy Callaway gave him a special assignment to protect Rosenbaum by consolidated tax return computer scheme.
I will be writing about Wesley Snipes who is an American actor. Mr. Snipes took the advice of his accountant not to file tax returns, or pay taxes on his income. The IRS tried to get him convicted on several felony tax fraud charges. They were reduced to misdemeanors that carried a mandatory 3-year jail sentence. He went to jail in December of 2010 at McKean Federal Correctional Institution. Mr. Snipes finished his time at a minimum security prison and was released early in April 2013. I do feel that he was treated the same as any other offender. He did not pay his taxes for 10 years, and the IRS went after him as they would anyone who didn’t pay their taxes. The IRS does not mess around, if you owe them, they will come after you and
John Cheek an airline pilot willfully failed to file federal income tax returns. Mr. Cheek clearly admits that he has not filed his returns, he maintains that he had not because he genuinely believes based on his association what a group believing that the federal tax system is unconstitutionally enforced and that his action was lawful. Cheek also produced a letter from an attorney stating that the sixteenth amendment did not authorize a tax on wages and salaries but only on gain or profit.
Few people like paying taxes. In fact, some individuals go to extreme lengths to avoid paying taxes – legally or otherwise. During the Civil War, one guilt-ridden American triggered the move by the U.S Treasury to enhance an already-established fund, in which citizens could voluntarily remit payments for unpaid or back taxes. Since its inception in 1811, up to 1987, The Conscience Fund had collected over 5 million dollars – thanks in part to the guilty conscience of one American citizen.
The book is not without its confinements. The greater part of the educational substance was at that point open in some frame, for example, through the Fed 's thorough minutes and transcripts. Keeping in mind the creator admits to a few errors around timing or discernment, he puts more vitality into safeguarding his key activities than he puts into impartially contemplating how eccentric money related arrangement may have worked better, what future
Extortion is often a term heard when we think of the Mafia and their criminal activities; more specifically, the Mafia’s use of intimidation to force businesses to pay for protection. However, extortion is not always used for monetary gain. In the following case, State v. Crone the issue of extortion is examined. Under Iowa Code section 711.4 portions of extortion are defined as being a person that does any of the following with the purpose of obtaining for oneself or another anything of value, tangible or intangible, including labor or services as well as threatening to expose any person to hatred, contempt, or ridicule ("Iowa Code 711", n.d.).
Everyone who has ever read a book has read a book by a banned author. Book banning has been around for hundreds of years. People should be allowed to read whatever they choose. “The ability to read, speak, think, and express ourselves freely is a right, not a privilege”
Has one ever wondered how a criminal can enjoy his profit without being exposed? If a criminal wants to enjoy his money successfully, he knows he has to hide the true proceeding of his wealth. Since there are criminals doing misdeeds for a financial motive, there has been ways to disguise the real origins of the profits. It was not until the 20 century when a formal term was imposed to this act. Even though the famous Al Capone was incarcerated because of tax evasion (actually considered as money laundering charges, too), he needed to make his money seems as legal money so the police won’t have any reason to suspect him. However, the situation for money launderers is not the same as Al Capone’s. If Al Capone was alive, he would need a
Imagine you’re in graduate school and you’re doing your doctorate on a controversial issue. You’ve done most of the research however there’s one book that has specific information that you need, and you can only find it in that particular book. You’ve looked on the online database and find out that the book is in your universities library. You go to the library and ask for some help finding the book you need, however the librarian informs you that the book was recently banned. How is it that in a country that prides itself in freedom of speech and self expression, a book on a controversial issue has been banned? Does it not contradict what the
Author of The Perks of a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky, mentions an important point when he says, “Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.” Banning books has been a practice since 443 BC in Rome when Socrates was to drink poison because of “his corruption of youth and his acknowledgement of unorthodox divinities,” says Beacon for Freedom of Expression. Before a book can get to the point of being banned, it undergoes a process of being challenged. This is when a group of people or a person tries to restrict certain materials. When a challenge ends up being victorious, the book gets banned and removed. Some people believe that certain books are not ethically
In the 1920s and 1930s America saw a large growth in mafias & mobs, drug & Alcohol Trafficking, and the organization of crime were a result of the Prohibition.
Throughout history many books have been banned, for many reasons. I believe that banning books is a dangerous power to give the government or people in authority. Banning book is not only morally unjust but also I believe that some of the reasons are also illegal. I will explain my opinion in the following.
Imagine living in a world where crime ruled. A world where gangsters were more powerful than politicians, owned the police, and ran the city in whatever way they felt. They robbed whom they wanted and killed when they didn't get their way. Now stop imagining and realize that this happened here in the United States of America in the 1920's. It was run by an organization made up mainly of Italians called the Mafia.
The Mafia is involved with more crime then one can think. Back when there was prohibition who do you think was the booze smuggler, the Mafia. this is just a few crimes the Mafia commits. Mafia hitman Salvatore ``Sammy the Bull'' Gravano pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges that he helped operate and finance a multimillion dollar, statewide criminal drug deal in Arizona. A federal grand jury in Brooklyn indicted 19 individuals, including six with suspected ties to organized crime, on charges of stock fraud and money laundering. Sex probably rates higher than whiskey in desirability, and so organized crime moved into illegal prostitution. these are just a spoonful or what the Mafia does. Racketeering; fraud; car theft; robbery; armed assault; drug dealing; trafficking in weapons and radioactive material; trafficking in human beings and exploitation through prostitution; alien smuggling; smuggling of precious and antique goods; extortion for protection money; gambling; embezzling from industries and financial institutions up to infiltration and control of private and commercial banks; controlling of black markets. The Mafia is dangerous group of people and they should be put in jail.