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. . The Summerville News, Thurs., Sept. 2, 1982
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Nunn Says Criminals Getting Off Easy
Senator Sam Nunn (D-Ga.)
said today that organized
crime figures and major drug
violators caught evading
federal income taxes are pay
ing only 10 to 20 percent of
the money they owe the
government.
In addition, Nunn said, 64
percent of the criminal fines
imposed by the courts on
organized criminals and drug
dealers are going unpaid.
These f%gures were part of
data that Nunn requested of
the Internal Revenue Service
and the Justice Department in
connection with a lengthy in
quiry into illegal narcotics
profits b{; the Senate Perma
nent Subcommittee on In
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vestigations. Nunn is the
panel's ranking Democrat and
served as its chairman in
1979-80.
“These figures clearly in
dicate that the federal govern
ment is not doing enough to
make organized criminals and
drug dealers pay the money
they owe,”” Nunn said. ‘'These
people should be made to feel
the financial pinch that
results from their criminal ac
tivifir."
unn said data provided
by the Internal Revenue Ser
vice indicates that in 207
cases, from 1970 to 1980,
organized crime figures and
drug traffickers were assessed
$33.5 million in back taxes
and penalties.
Of this amount, only $3.7
million was actually colf;cted.
The remaining S3O million
was declared either uncollecti
ble or the IRS was still trying
to collect it, Nunn said.
The cases studied by IRS
were chosen from over 800 tax
prosecutions conducted by
the Federal Organized Crime
Strike Force. ’Fhe 207 cases
are those where internal IRS
records were still available.
According to the IRS, the
sampling provides a realistic
picture of tax collection suc
cess for these types of
violators.
These latest estimates are
consistent with two previous
IRS studies on the payment of
taxes by organized crime
figures and narcotics traf
fickers. In February 1982, the
Western Region of IRS ex
amined 94 prosecutions from
the Service's Special Enforce
ment Program involving
assessments against organiz
ed crime figures and high
echelon dope dealers. Thirty
two of those 94 cases had been
forwarded for collection with
total tax and penalties due of
$1.9 million. Of that figure
$397,032, or 20.8 percent, was
collected. The remaining $1.5
million was either designated
uncollectible or the IRS was
still trying to collect it.
A second IRS study, com
pleted in April 1977, reviewed
the collection of tax
assessments against organiz
ed criminals and drug dealers
where total taxes and
penalties reached $28.4
million. Of that figure, $17.8
million, or 63 percent, was
considered to be uncollectible.
IRS was still trying to collect
$5 million; only $6-million had
actually been collected.
An IRS report issued in
conjunction with the latter
study noted:
“It should be stressed that
it is difficult to improve the
collectibility of strike force
program cases because the
nature of taxpayers involved
in organized crime activities is
to resort to intricate ways to
conceal or liquidate their
assets and put them beyond
the reach of the government.”
The IRS study found that
these violators dispose of
their assets an average of 4.7
years before the fina% assess
ment of their civil tax liability.
The report added,
however, that despite the
evasive tactics of these kinds
of tax violators, IRS should
improve its collection
capabilities.
On the related issue of
criminal fines, Nunn said that
a Department of Justice
report, dated Sept. 4, 1981,
showed that tEe Federal
courts imposed criminal fines
of $4,940,452 in Organized
Crime Strike Force prosecu
tions of tax violations during
the years 1970 through 1979.
The report disclosed that
$1,810,824, or about one-third
of these fines, had been col
lected, indicating that 64 per
cent of the monies were not
collected.
“In light of the Depart
ment’s study of fines imposed
in Strike Force cases, I have
directed the minority staff of
the Subcommittee to examine
further the government's ef
forts to collect fines imposed
in all criminal cases,” Nunn
said. ‘‘Certainly the successful
collection of criminal fines, as
well as tax assessments, is
essential to the effective en
forcement of our criminal
laws.”
Henderson
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Madeline Henderson has
been appointed chairman for
Trion as part of the 1982 Fall
Community Line Campaign
for the Georgia Chapter of t%)e
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Ms. Henderson will be chair
ing a Bike-a-Thon to raise
funds for research to find a
cure for cystic fibrosis, this
nation’s leading genetic cause
of childrens’ deaths.
A child inherits cystic
fibrosis from both parents
who are almost always
unaware that they carry the
cfitic fibrosis gene until their
child is diagnosed as having
the fatal disease.
Cystic fibrosis produces
abnormal amounts of thick
gluey mucus that block
reathing and digestion. Daily
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necessary to prolong the lives
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Today children born with
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