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Feds hit Roger Stone with $2 million tax suit
The suit says that at the time of his indictment Stone was making regular payments to the IRS on a tax debt of about $1 million he ran up from 2007 to 2011.
Roger Stone, former adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, arrives at E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse on February 20, 2020 in Washington, DC. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images
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The Justice Department is suing political strategist and longtime Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone for almost $2 million in unpaid taxes, penalties and interest, dating back more than a decade.
The civil suit, filed Friday in federal court in West Palm Beach, Fla., makes several references to Stone’s indictment two years ago on charges he tried to deceive Congress and threatened a witness during investigations into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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The Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Friday against Roger Stone and his wife, Nydia, arguing the longtime associate of former President Donald Trump owes roughly $2 million in unpaid federal taxes and asserting they sought to “shield” their income from being collected as they allegedly funded a “lavish” lifestyle.
Christopher Coulson of the Justice Department’s Tax Division filed a lengthy complaint against the Stones in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Friday, saying the DOJ “brings this civil action to reduce to judgment and collect unpaid federal income tax liabilities” owed by the husband and wife for 2007 through 2011, as well as 2018. The lawsuit also argued that Drake Ventures is an “alter ego” for the Stones and thus liable for the tax liabilities, too, and that DOJ believed the transfer of the Stones’ condominium in Fort Lauderdale to the Bertran Family Revocable Trust should be “set aside as fr