California lieutenant governor's (R) family business owes U.S. more than $100,000 in taxes

[Newsjock]

Source: Los Angeles Times

A business owned by California Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado and his family owes the federal government more than $100,000 in taxes, according to a lien filed against the property by the Internal Revenue Service earlier this year.

It is the ninth time since 1992 that federal, state or local tax collectors have resorted to liens against the Santa Maria Republican's family farm in an effort to compel payments totaling more than $240,000, public records show.

Federal officials filed the lien April 13, two weeks before Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger swore in Maldonado as the state's second highest-ranking public official.

The single-page IRS lien indicates that Maldonado owes the government $111,146 for underpaying a category of taxes that include Social Security, Medicare and federal withholding contributions for employees on his 6,000-acre farm in Santa Barbara County.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-maldonado-20100724,0,6336180.story

[Bette Noir]

1. Ouch. That's a lot of money.

For the full information of those on DU -- Maldonado was the one Republican who broke ranks last year, and voted with the Democratic majority in the State Assembly, so we could finally have a budget (a perennial problem, here in California where a budget requires a 2/3 majority to pass). For this, the Republican party swore to cut him loose and leave him to hang.

He may be a complete slimeball, but he has done one decent thing, at great professional cost.

[Historic NY]

2. So thats why there a deficit Republicans don't pay taxes,,,garnish his state salary..

[Bitwit1234]

3. How come he got elected.

[Brother Buzz]

5. He didn't get elected, Schwarzenegger nominated him when

Garamendi vacated the office in 2009 after being elected to the United States House of Representatives (CA 10).

[anigbrowl]

7. of course he did

He has been a member of the California assembly for years. He was only appointed to Lt. Governor.

[pattmarty]

4. That's the trouble with these greedy motherfuckers, it's not as if they......

............pay and bitch about paying too much (like most of "them" do), it's that they don't want to pay ANY taxes. Simply unbelievable.

[alp227]

6. No surprise from a member of a tax-hating party. n/t

[davidinalameda]

8. like Tom Daschle, Tim Geithner too?

:shrug:

[alp227]

9. Oh wait, Charles Rangel and Ron Dellums.

I think that members of both D and R parties often evade taxes. (Rangel and Dellums and Democrats; Rangel is a Congressional Rep from NY; Dellums is a former Cong Rep from CA and now Mayor of Oakland, CA)

[davidinalameda]

11. didn't know that about Dellums

just knew he was probably the most inept mayor currently serving

[T Wolf]

10. I can give him a number from teevee where he can settle for far less. Anything I can do to help

this poor victim of the evil soshulist democrat partiers...