The first thing I thought of was, Kermit's not bright enough to run a financial organization. He's probably the figurehead frontman. Who is behind this? When I saw the 40-year potential sentence, I knew this was the legal system putting its victim through mental torture to force him against his better judgment to take the plea bargain (Sly predicts it's 3 years) and save the taxpayers the cost of a trial. It's standard procedure for prosecutors to make threats (then they imprison a British father for a year for yelling at his daughter during a family fight, "I'm going to kill you"). That's 20 grand per year per charity. Not hundreds of millions of dollars. Like other salesmen, it's standard for prosecutors to overstate their threats, I mean charges. In other words, it was a finders fee. Finders fees (a doctor, plumber, lawyer, etc. pays another small businessman to refer business to him) are legal. But they are taxable revenue to the receiver and a decuctible expense to the payer, like wages for services rendered. In this case, it appears that the lawyer put the finders fee on his tax return as a charitable contribution instead of as a business expense (which may have saved him a hundred dollars per year or cost him that much...I don't know anymore what the tax percentages are for the two kinds of deduction.) So the government figures that they have Kermit one way or the other. Either he claims it was a finders fee (should have paid tax on that revenue) or that his charity is like most small charities and spends almost 100% of its income on administrative expenses (like salary to him). Either way, they get him on undeclared taxable income, but not on stealing money from his "charity" (really just a finders fee bank account, almost all paid by one lawyer whose motivation was to gain clients, not donate to charity). In short, the inferred claim that Kermit deceived poor Christian donors for hundreds of millions of dollars is bullshit. He simply didn't put some income on his tax return, a much lesser crime (almost 200 grand, divided by 5 years, split with others running the charity, so maybe 20 grand per year to Kermit...times maybe a tax rate of 25% = 5 grand per year in tax saved). He's no financial genius. I wonder who filled out his returns. The transaction fee to the seller can't be more than a few bucks per sale. The total must be maybe a thousand or two. Besides, what else was Kermit supposed to do, if he thought he had a charity going. Prosecutors shouldn't be allowed to pile on charges which are inevitable given the original charge. But that's all part of the mental torture and threats (for which they would prosecute you or me if we did that). These auxiliary disposable charges can be dropped after they get the victim to plead guilty to the main charge and ruin him in the media, sending him into hiding for the rest of his life. The prosecutor grows her story from the "under $200,000" of the first article. So I Binged Reza Davachi. His website, Digitaldeliverydownloads.com, IS MALWARE SO DON'T CLICK IT. (To get out of the internet, I had to use Windows Task Manager to escape that damned beeping.) Here's an article from a year ago. In short, Kermit was one of many victims of Davachi, and should be convicted of not paying a few thousand dollars per year of tax for 5 years, but who knows what the legal system and its partner in crime the media will do to him after ruining his reputation yet again. http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article24963844.html
Finder's fees are illegal in many cases. It depends on whom is paying whom. In Oregon, a Realtor cannot pay a finder's fee to anyone other than another Realtor. And it differs whether the other Realtor is in state or out of state. I cannot pay a finder's fee to a client who recommends me or a friend who recommends me. I assume there are similar restrictions for lawyers. Either the money was meant to improve lives of people in Africa, and, well, things went astray...or it was a pre-conceived criminal enterprise. The former means people may have actually died due to the thefts and he deserves jail, the latter means he's a thug and deserves jail.
Finders fees may be disallowed by some state professional organizations like doctors, realtors, accountants, etc. All I know is that when you get an accounting degree, textbooks teach you how to account for them, which means they are a general practice. But even if disallowed among members of a professional organization, that wouldn't mean they're illegal. And even if they are illegal in some professions in some states, that would be a far smaller crime than what is being claimed in this case. And even if he did run a tiny charity with near-100% administrative expenses (salary to partners including himself and Reza Davachi), which is true with many charities much bigger than his (for example, often the phone solicitor wages eat up most of the donations), I wonder about the influence of the guy who got him into it, Davachi.
I'd rather have the one trick truth pony. You don't have one of those, I bet. I am right about my comparison. Right down to the charities.
I may disagree with you, and vice versa, and that's the fun of it. But I would never call you a liar. I'm embarrassed for you. Wow.
I didn't call you a liar. Your candidate is the no truth pony. You do believe her lies. It is what it is.
You can backtrack all you want Denny. I don't mind vigorous debate. But you called me a liar. Below the belt. I'm outta here.
I don't have to backtrack. The one trick pony bit was a personal attack. I let those slide because it is political talk.
That belongs somewhere else. Seriously, what's the matter with you? WTF does your hatred for Hillary Clinton have to do with this thread? Edit: Never mind. Please don't answer that. Sorry I asked. I should know better than to sucked in by trolls. My bad.
LOL The similarity is using a charity as a slush fund. Nobody has a problem with Washington getting busted. This is in OT. I wouldn't have said anything if it were in the main Blazers forum. It could have been posted there, IMO. No need to get into it any more than that.
Just to get everyone on the same page. There was a thread about Kermit Washington being arrested in the Blazer forum. There was also one created in the OT section. Denny, like he tends to do in all of the OT threads, posted about Hillary in the OT kermit thread. Since they were both about Kermit and he has multiple connections to the Blazers I merged both threads into the Blazer forum.
Stevenson, you want me to go kick Denny in the balls for you? I fly over his house every day and look down at him through a telescope.
What a crazy ass world. Rape gets 6 months (3 with time off for good behavior) and this gets 40 years? Clearly property is worth more than women. Not that I'm surprised.
