And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: "Day Starr (*No-qui-si*)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ex-Cherokee Chief Guilty of Tax Evasion > 05/01/1999 > ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- The former principal chief of the Eastern Band > of Cherokee Indians pleaded guilty Friday to federal tax evasion after > an indictment last fall accused him of accepting bribes while leading > the 11,000-member tribe. > Jonathan Taylor, 58, pleaded guilty to one count of income tax evasion > before U.S. Magistrate Max Cogburn in Asheville. > Taylor, principal chief for two terms before losing in 1995 to current > chief Joyce Dugan, accepted a plea agreement whereby the government > dismissed two tax evasion counts. Two other bribery charges also will be > dismissed because a U.S. Supreme Court ruling this week makes it harder > to convict someone of giving an illegal gratuity to a federal official. > As part of the plea agreement, Taylor admitted that he stated on his and > his wife's 1994 joint tax return that they made $71,930, when he knew he > had made more than $182,000. The return said they owed $15,199, when in > fact they should have owed $47,895, according to the indictment. > "He's pled guilty and acknowledged that he's violated the law, and from > our standpoint that ends it," Mark Calloway, the U.S. attorney for the > Western District of North Carolina, said after the hearing. > An indictment last October accused Taylor of soliciting and accepting > bribes while chief in excess of $10,000 from the former manager of the > tribal bingo hall. The indictment also alleged he owed $53,451 in > federal income taxes for 1992, 1993 and 1994. > Taylor will be sentenced in about four months, but no date has been set. > He could be sent to prison for up to five years, fined up to $100,000 > and levied court costs, according to the plea agreement. > === > +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ > "Many proposals have been made to us to adopt your laws, your religion, your manners and your customs. We would be better pleased with beholding the good effects of these doctrines in your own practices, than with hearing you talk about them". Old Tassel, Chief of the Tsalagi > +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Back To The Blanket Journal: http://www.angelfire.com/biz/BackToTheBlanket Heroine Mu Gui-Ying http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Pagoda/7111 Reprinted under the fair use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
