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I was wondering what this guy would do.

Dec 30, 2014 5:29AM PST
AND he's doing it with a 'heavy heart"

Heavy heart

Melancholy; depressed; sad.
When your heart is weighted down by sorrow. Often times a death, or when you are still in love with someone from the past.

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Now you know
Dec 30, 2014 5:58AM PST

He got caught....and is paying the price. That's more than many in Congress have done.......

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Hmmm...partly by paying illegal immigrant workers in cash
Dec 30, 2014 6:16AM PST

Sounds like something no one else has ever done before?...help himself and other people eke out a living by cheating the tax man? What a novel idea. I certainly can't condone what he did but it's probably a good thing that not everyone who'd done similar with other illegal immigrants had been caught and jailed because we'd need a lot more prisons. What I'd take from this, however, is not just that we have tax dodgers in all walks of life but that something may be wrong with the tax code that interferes with business and job growth.

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Top Cop in NYC during 9-11
Dec 30, 2014 6:35AM PST

was picked by GWB for Atty General if I remember correctly (the position, not the man), and he had an illegal domestic working for him and got knocked out of the running.

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What I don't understand is how we can easily switch
Dec 30, 2014 6:49AM PST

from condemning the criminal to condemning the law...and then turn around and do the opposite. Maybe we should make more room for tax cheats by emptying the prisons of drug offenders. After all, it's the law that's at fault and not the one who disobeys it...Right? I'm quite sure there's a lot of "under-the-table" money that changes hands just to avoid taxes...and many of these money exchanges were perfectly normal and legal in times past. Bartering between neighbors wasn't anything bad. Now it's risky due to tax laws. Laws create at least as many criminals as do criminal minds.

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Illegals
Dec 30, 2014 8:00AM PST

Those thousands that crossed the border recently and were all given 'notices' to show up in court.........report out today says 90% have disappeared into the 'woodwork' like roaches and never showed up for their court dates. Who is surprised? How many will be working under the table or added to a 'relatives' foodstamp list?

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Too many lawyers are out there working against justice
Dec 30, 2014 8:25AM PST

rather than for it. Criminal lawyers aren't about justice but about winning. The same goes for other trial lawyers. You won't see this change until you see law ethics change and you won't see that change as long as nearly half of our congress people list "lawyer" as their profession. They'll be out their protecting their own friends and their future necks once voted out.