by Dr. Don Taylor, Ph.D., CFA, CFP, CASLJanuary 04, 2013 - Bankrate.comDear Dr. Don,My brother-in-law has just been convicted of a felony and will spend the next 19 months in a Michigan prison. Will the government withhold his Social Security income because of this? His wife needs that money. T...
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By Chris Olwell / The News HeraldThursday, January 3, 2013 PANAMA CITY - An unorthodox crime has resulted in an unorthodox conviction in the case of the prison inmate accused of running a tax fraud scheme from behind bars.The 14thJudicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office was set to take Michael Wi...
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By Billy Hallowell - January 4, 2013CRESAPTOWN, Md. (TheBlaze/AP) - Hazard Wilson’s new cellmate is a hairy bundle of energy whose playful zeal can’t be contained by steel doors: a five-month-old golden retriever. Yardley is one of three canines assigned since September to inmates at a maximum-s...
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Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013By Christopher SewardThe Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionA Lawrenceville couple who stopped filing federal tax returns in the 1990s, claiming they were not subject to U.S. tax laws, will spend the next four to five years in a U.S. prison for tax fraud.A federal judge sentenced S...
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By Michelle Durham - January 4, 2013PHILADELPHIA (CBS)– The Federal Communications Commission is currently soliciting public comment on a proposal to reduce the cost of phone calls prisoners make to their families in another state. Currently, the families of prisoners who make calls pay two sep...
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By David Kravets - Wired - 01.03.13The leader of the in-theater camcording gang known as the IMAGiNE Group was handed a 60-month prison term Thursday in what is the nation’s longest sentence in a file-sharing case.The sentence handed to Jeramiah Perkins, 40, of Portsmouth, Virginia, surpass...
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Shane Guthrie during a pretrial hearing in Gainesville, Fla. Accused of beating his girlfriend and threatening her with a knife, he was offered a plea deal of two years plus probation by the prosecutor. Mr. Guthrie rejected that, and a later offer of five years.By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. - Septemb...
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The stark choice given a medical marijuana grower highlights the injustice of mandatory minimums. Jacob Sullum - January 2, 2013 Chris Williams, a Montana medical marijuana grower, faces at least five years in federal prison when he is sentenced on...
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Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013By Rhonda Cook - The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionFirst there was a picture sent to Jimenna Whitner’s cell phone of her brother, who was bloody and beaten.Next, she got a text message from somewhere inside Baldwin State Prison 950 miles from her home in Michigan, demanding $...