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 Xtine66 rated 27 months ago - Published - July, 14, 2006
Evangelist arrested on federal charges
by Michael Stewart
A Pensacola evangelist who owns the defunct Dinosaur Adventure Land in Pensacola was arrested Thursday on 58 federal charges, including failing to pay $473,818 in employee-related taxes and making threats agai...
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- butcher83 rated 27 months ago
- Poor "Dr. Dino." What a bastard!
- iremon rated 27 months ago
- Another one bites the dust...
- finestkind rated 27 months ago
- From the page: "Kent Hovind, who often calls himself "Dr. Dino," has been sparring with the IRS for at least 17 years on his claims that he is employed by God, receives no income, has no expenses and owns no property."
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Hahaha. No, really - I'm sitting here at my desk at work laughing. Thanks to Xtine66 for sending me this!
- Xtine66 rated 27 months ago
- Published - July, 14, 2006
Evangelist arrested on federal charges
by Michael Stewart
A Pensacola evangelist who owns the defunct Dinosaur Adventure Land in Pensacola was arrested Thursday on 58 federal charges, including failing to pay $473,818 in employee-related taxes and making threats against investigators.
Of the 58 charges, 44 were filed against Kent Hovind and his wife, Jo, for evading bank reporting requirements as they withdrew $430,500 from AmSouth Bank between July 20, 2001, and Aug. 9, 2002.
At the couple's first court appearance Thursday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Miles Davis, Kent Hovind professed not to understand why he is being prosecuted. Some 20 supporters were in the courtroom.
"I still don't understand what I'm being charged for and who is charging me," he said.
Kent Hovind, who often calls himself "Dr. Dino," has been sparring with the IRS for at least 17 years on his claims that he is employed by God, receives no income, has no expenses and owns no property.
"The debtor apparently maintains that as a minister of God, everything he owns belongs to God and he is not subject to paying taxes to the United States on money he receives for doing God's work," U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Lewis Killian Jr. wrote when he dismissed a claim from Hovind in 1996.
Hovind, an avowed creationist, has widely publicized his "standing offer" to pay $250,000 to anyone who can provide scientific evidence of evolution.
"No one has ever observed a dog produce a non-dog," Hovind once wrote in reply to a New York Times article. ...
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer now are we, honey?
Many thanks to the dear and very sharp Pattenicus
- Codebender rated 27 months ago
- "A Pensacola evangelist who owns the defunct Dinosaur Adventure Land in Pensacola was arrested Thursday on 58 federal charges, including failing to pay $473,818 in employee-related taxes and making threats against investigators.
Kent Hovind has been sparring with the IRS for at least 17 years on his claims that he is employed by God, receives no income, has no expenses and owns no property.
"The debtor apparently maintains that as a minister of God, everything he owns belongs to God and he is not subject to paying taxes to the United States on money he receives for doing God's work," U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Lewis Killian Jr. wrote when he dismissed a claim from Hovind in 1996."
- Austin-Medic rated 27 months ago
- w00t! Couldn't happen to a better guy! And, apparently, building permits go against the "deeply held religious beliefs" of religious fundamentalist-whackjobs. Seriously...building permits.
- Evolved rated 27 months ago
- Priceless, don't screw with the IRS.
- Wraywolf rated 27 months ago
- Kent Hovind is going to jail.
This makes me really horny.
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