Word: deadbeat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said in the heat of negotiations. Retaliation from the feds was swift and sure: Within weeks, IRS agents posted notices that led locals to believe the family was involved in drug smuggling, released her tax information to local television shows, and dashed off a letter criticizing her as a "deadbeat freeloader" to the editor in chief of a Colorado Springs newspaper. Once they started, the IRS found it hard to stop, though. One week after Ward settled her overdue bill, two district IRS agents took to the radio airwaves to denounce Ward for not paying her taxes. Today, Ward...
...judge ruled that Keating's 1993 federal conviction was tainted. And in a separate rebuke, a three-judge federal appeals panel declared that the evidence of his guilt is "not overwhelming." That means Keating is no longer a criminal in the eyes of the law--but he is a deadbeat. He still faces roughly $5.2 billion in civil judgments against him stemming from Lincoln's collapse. All his identifiable property, including his home, was long ago auctioned off by the government...
...back and do something for the kids you left foodless with the welfare bill. Don't be a deadbeat dad to the whole country...
...behind the Secret Service, where they keep the crates of live chickens, the goats and the journalists--might have hoped to see the flesh and blood of democracy up close, but spent his time instead fantasizing a kind of Super Bowl that would pit the Soccer Moms against the Deadbeat Dads...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Uncle Sam...has now become our deadbeat uncle, because across the country as we all sat down to our Christmas dinners and the start of a new year, many federal workers were deprived of their pay, even those who were working...