Al Franken To Pay $70,000 in Back Taxes
April 30th, 2008 at 01:30am Matt Margolis
Failed liberal talk radio host and not-so-funny comedian Al Franken apparently thought that he could get away without paying taxes over the past four years. Well, the joke is on him and he now has to pay $70,000 in back taxes in 17 states.
DFL U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken, frontrunner in the race to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman, owes $70,000 in back taxes in 17 states, where he earned income going back to 2003.
Franken on Tuesday told the Associated Press that he never intended to avoid paying taxes and that on the advice of his accountant, had paid taxes to the city and state where he lived.
Franken has been under fire since early March, when a Republican operative revealed that Franken had failed to pay workers’ compensation and disability premiums for employees of his New York-based corporation, Alan Franken, Inc., between 2002 and 2005.
New York state officials had tried to collect the back premiums for four years, resorting to a collection agency and even filing a summary judgment against Franken in state Supreme Court last May for $25,000.
In recent months, there’s been quite a bit of corruption discovered about Al Franken. This isn’t just some isolated incidents of corrupt actions… There’s a pattern of corruption. Three years ago we learned that Air America, Al Franken’s liberal talk radio project, was stealing federal funds from the Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club.
Al Franken truly is a member of the Caucus of Corruption. The question remains… will this be enough to force him out the race, or will Minnesota Democrats give him a free pass?
Minnesota Democrats Exposed is following the Franken story…
Entry Filed under: Campaign 2008, Senate
5 Comments
1. Kurt | April 30th, 2008 at 2:08 am
So let me get this straight. A guy who wants to be a US Senator does not know that you are taxed WHERE you make the income and not where you live? This moron must have hired Willie Nelson’s old accountant that got him in trouble years ago.
It is incredible how greedy these liberals are when it is their money. If he was not being greedy, he was being stupid. Neither one is too good. And all this from a guy who thinks Bush is “dumb”.
Norm Coleman has been a very good senator and the folks in Minnesota know that. Even without this, Franken is a sure loser in November.
2. Eric Fleming | April 30th, 2008 at 2:56 am
I was thinking the same thing. There was a clip of him on tonight’s 10:00 PM news, and he sat there at his desk and said (this is a loose quote), “I only found out recently that I had to claim taxes earned in other states as income from that state.” He then made the ridiculous claim: “My accountant wasn’t aware of this either.”
Come on. The guy grew up in Minnesota, then went to college at Harvard. As in, another state. He worked at the Harvard Crimson, and I’m assuming he got paid for it, right? So where did he claim that income? I know when I was going to college in Minnesota after growing up in Iowa, I was still a resident of Iowa, in spite of living in Minnesota during the school year. I’d assume the same was true of Franken, right? So has he been overpaying on his Minnesota (or New York) taxes all this time and just now got caught? I mean, just now “realized the mistake”?
3. Danish Artist | April 30th, 2008 at 5:59 am
Yawn……..
Another rich liberal who doesn’t pay his fair share.
Who’d have thunk it!
4. OperationChaos | April 30th, 2008 at 6:50 am
Well said, Danish Artist.
Franken’s a MoveOn lib, so he’ll be excused for his “ignorance…”
5. Bigfoot | April 30th, 2008 at 8:45 am
This will be great fodder for Coleman’s campaign. “Al Franken can’t get his taxes straight. Do you want him legislating yours?”