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To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (273284)	9/3/2010 8:18:27 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

No...a Slim Moose ---

To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (273284)	9/3/2010 11:13:38 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 306849

You bet.

To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (273284)	9/3/2010 11:46:55 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 306849

Look at what happened to Mr. Hymietown. Jesse Jackson's Cadillac Escalade stolen in Detroit, stripped The irony of Jesse Jackson's stripped SUV Henry Payne / The Michigan View.com : September 03. 2010 detnews.com Add Jesse Jackson’s ride to prominent vehicles being stripped in Detroit. Following the embarrassing news that Mayor Dave Bing’s GMC Yukon was hijacked by criminals this week, Detroit’s Channel 7 reports that the Reverend’s Caddy Escalade SUV was stolen and stripped of its wheels while he was in town last weekend with the UAW’s militant President Bob King leading the “Jobs, Justice, and Peace” march promoting government-funded green jobs. Read that again: Jackson’s Caddy SUV was stripped while he was in town promoting green jobs. Add Jesse to the Al Gore-Tom Friedman-Barack Obama School of Environmental Hypocrisy. While preaching to Americans that they need to cram their families into hybrid Priuses to go shopping for compact fluorescent light bulbs to save the planet, they themselves continue to live large. “We need an economy that creates employment that can't be shipped overseas,” the Green Rev wrote for CNN about the march. “Home-grown American labor will be installing windmills and solar panels. A green economy is not an abstract concept.” Well, its certainly abstract to Jesse, but I digress. “Even now, the only sector of the economy that has seen job growth during the recession is the green job sector. Time is of the essence.” Actually, time long ago passed Detroit by because Jesse’ favored government mpg mandates and UAW wages stripped the Big Three’s ability to compete against non-union transplants. These jobs were real – unlike the artificial, government subsidized green jobs he shakes down the feds for today. Real jobs produced big, profitable SUVs like the one Jesse prefers to ride in. His SUV has been stripped by thugs – a fitting metaphor for what Jesse and his pals have done to the auto industry for the last 35 years.

To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (273284)	9/4/2010 10:07:21 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 306849

tcpalm.com Officials with Palm Beach company get prison in hiring of illegal aliens Two officials of a Palm Beach County contracting business were sentenced Friday to prison for hiring illegal aliens in order to avoid payment of taxes and worker compensation premiums, federal officials said. John M. David, president of Sun Deck Concrete Inc. was sentenced to 16 months in prison, to be followed by 2 years of supervised release. Juan A. Gonzalez, a supervisor at the business, was sentenced to 10 months in prison, to be followed by 2 years of supervised release. In addition, the defendants were ordered to pay restitution totaling $479, 906.60, which David paid in full prior to today’s sentencing. The sentencing were announced in a news release by Wifredo A. Ferrer, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Daniel W. Auer, special agent in charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, and John Askins, director, Florida Department of Financial Services, Division of Insurance Fraud. Sun Deck provides concrete services to residential and commercial contractors. According to court documents, in the early 2000s, Sun Deck’s business began to grow and the company needed to hire additional laborers. To meet this need and to remain profitable, Sun Deck turned to undocumented workers, many of whom were Honduran and Mexican nationals who were living in the United States illegally. In order to conceal the fact that Sun Deck was hiring and paying illegal aliens, John David and Juan A. Gonzalez devised a scheme to pay these workers through a series of shell companies. The federal officials said court documents showed the following: The shell companies, which had been set up by co-conspirators, purportedly provided labor services to construction companies like Sun Deck. In truth, the companies provided no legitimate services and were set up for the sole purpose of funneling wages from the construction companies to the illegal workers. To make the shell companies appear legitimate, the co-conspirators opened corporate bank accounts, obtained federal tax identification numbers, and purchased fraudulent workers’ compensation insurance policies for the companies. Between 2005 and 2006, Gonzalez and other Sun Deck supervisors recruited more than 20 illegal aliens to work at Sun Deck work sites. Sun Deck controlled all aspects of the illegal workers’ employment. Specifically, Gonzalez and the other Sun Deck supervisors, in consultation with David, hired and fired the illegal workers, determined their work assignments and schedules, supervised their work at the job site, and set their hourly wages. At the end of each week, Gonzalez and the other Sun Deck supervisors calculated the wages due to each illegal alien and reported these wages to David, who would approve the issuance of checks payable to the shell companies for the amount of the wages, as well as additional monies to cover kickbacks to the co-conspirators and supervisors and fees to the check cashing store. During 2005 and 2006, David caused Sun Deck to pay more than $2 million in cash wages through the shell companies in order to conceal the fact that Sun Deck was employing illegal workers and to avoid the payment of employment taxes and workers’ compensation premiums for these workers. As a result of this scheme, David defrauded the Internal Revenue Service out of $316,254.60 in employment taxes which were due and owing on these wages. In addition, Sun Deck failed to disclose in its monthly audit reports which were sent via the mail to Bridgefield Employers Insurance Company, Sun Deck’s insurance carrier, that it had paid approximately $2 million in wages to the illegal aliens. Consequently, Sun Deck avoided the payment of approximately $163,652 in workers’ compensation premiums due and owing to Bridgefield for these employees.