Panel votes to kill tax shelter schemes in farm investments
The House Ways and Means Committee moved to end farm investment shelters used by nonfarmers to cut taxes, including the so called Mexican vegetable rollover. The panel estimates about 100 million dollars in income avoids Treasury taxes annually via farm operation deductions. Other topics included calls for a new tax cut, criticism of offshore royalties, and a proposed IRS due process bill by Senator Tunney.
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Equity Funding leader jailed in $2 billion fraud case
Stanley Goldblum, former Equity Funding president and chairman, received a three to ten year sentence for forgery in Lake County, with terms running concurrently to an eight year California federal sentence. Illinois Attorney General William Scott called the scheme the largest financial crime in American annals.
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Governor Signs Bills Expanding Kern County Judgeships
Day in Sacramento reports Governor signing AB1951 increasing Kern County Superior Court judges from six to eight. Other items include jury duty exemptions on undue hardship, vetoed student union construction fees, and various education and public cost proposals with bills advancing to committees.
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Fromme warned judge before Ford threat two months prior
Lynette Fromme told Judge Raymond Te she would do something desperate after writing in June about Manson, calling him later to discuss killing and Vietnam. The judge said Fromme feared violent acts and later spoke of atonement while recounting the 1971 Manson trial and her role in the case.
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