The Shuster Project

Tobacco Industry Fraud & False Claims Issues

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Below is my response to Jeff Bowman’s request to submit a synopsis of The Shuster Project presentation that would be made at the February 17^th event in Washington D.C.

This synopsis was the result of having conferred with two senior staff members of The Shuster Project that I also chose to accompany me to Washington in order to provide additional personnel to handle any questions regarding the income tax component of The Shuster Project work.

The presentation illustrated below will take no more than 45 minutes to complete if uninterrupted.

If there were interruptions, which I now suppose that Schulz feared would occur as our presentation was educational in addition to being informative, I would have merely asked that those questions and concerns be brought to our table after the presentations by myself and any others were completed…giving full consideration for the “precious” time factor Schulz seemed so concerned about.

Dear Mr. Schulz,

     Jeff Bowman has informed me that he has forwarded to you my proposal to make a brief presentation at the February 17th symposium you are having at the National Press Club.

     The central theme of my presentation will focus on three significant points as they relate to IRS income tax collection activities (or the remarkable lack thereof in the case of acknowledged corporate income tax fraud at the state and federal level.)

     The first point will involve the display of a form used in the tobacco industry (Contingency Form) that "isolates" and identifies profits realized by all of the tobacco companies that is indisputably income generated by the increased value of tobacco inventories held by thousands upon thousands of field tobacco sales people as the result of the numerous price increases applied each and every year.

     The second point will be to briefly "interpret" that form and identify the dollars as it relates to how those Contingency Forms identify the precise income tax dollar amounts each tobacco company owes the United States treasury - the IRS and all relevant political subdivisions that would realize their exclusive portions of withholding from those totals defrauded by the tobacco companies - and which now the IRS is knowingly and criminally attempting to disavow.

     That income of the tobacco companies is being "passed on" to the individual field tobacco sales people as what I term "quiet money."

     The individual field tobacco sales people are instructed to not report that money as income on their income tax forms.

     As a result, over 40+ years, tens upon tens of thousands of "fraudulent" income tax forms have been submitted to the IRS with hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars in taxable income that has not been collected...income that is the responsibility of the tobacco companies that have yet to pay that debt.

     When you factor in interest and penalties for not just what the IRS can apply, but the interest and penalties of each and every political subdivision of the U.S. government/treasury - Social Security, Medicare, FICA, Unemployment taxes and others - the amount of still-uncollected, defrauded income tax revenues exceeds $1.3 Billion Dollars nationwide, using extremely conservative calculations that are borne out by the IRS themselves at a meeting held in one of our lawyers offices with a Special Agent of the IRS and one of our lawyers, a former prosecuting attorney for the IRS!

     The final point will be to display and "interpret" the Form 211's The Shuster Project has submitted to the IRS, at their insistence, that was to initially empower the IRS and their political subdivisions to identify the defrauded moneys so that the IRS could just go in and get the money from the tobacco companies; these actions on their part aside from and not including the application of interest and penalties by both the IRS and the relevant political subdivisions of the U.S. treasury.

     It was at that stage that the cover-up began by the IRS.

     It was at that stage that the IRS began their attempt to disavow the documents and testimony I provided to their Special Agent, witnessed and with correspondence that is on record with them and in our attorney's office.

     If you go to The Shuster Project web site at - http://www.rxshuster.org/ - and go to our IRS Involvement section, you will see all of the documentation there, illustrated, that nails the IRS to the door of negligent, criminal behaviors themselves for not initiating the recovery of vast sums of defrauded State and Federal Income Tax revenues.

     The Shuster Project is both a tobacco issues information resource and a teaching web site.

     I will be providing, on easel, a display of the Contingency Form, the Form 211's and correspondence sent to the IRS by The Shuster Project demanding an explanation for the criminal negligence of the IRS for deliberately avoiding the collection of income taxes as the result of multiple corporate fraud exceeding $1.3 BILLION Dollars on the one hand, yet persecuting others, primarily normal citizens, in their pursuit of mere hundreds or thousands of dollars with no mercy whatsoever.

     When the "standard(s)" the IRS applies that allows corporate income tax fraud to go rewarded and unaddressed yet ravage normal citizens for the nominal income taxes they may owe and whom may be having temporary or serious financial difficulties, then I will stand tall and speak loudly to illustrate this gross inequity in the application of the income tax collection and recovery tactics the IRS selectively and curiously employs and I shall attempt to weigh in and shield the regular citizens as the result of such inequity in the application of terror by the IRS.

     Bob, I understand that, as Jeff termed it so well...time will be a precious commodity on February 17th...

     Wouldn't it make sense to go to The Shuster Project web site yourself, go to our IRS Involvement pages to see for yourself that what I have termed above in this email is factual, a true illustration of an incredible scheme by the IRS to allow over a billion dollars to go uncollected with each year piling up more defrauded income tax revenues when the theme of your meeting itself is, in part, IRS Income Tax collection fraud and income tax fraud?

     I have no idea how many speakers you have that, in one "example," can nail the IRS to the wall for criminal negligence in allowing continuing corporate fraud involving no less then 7 companies, several of which are Fortune 500 Companies, that conduct as a part of their corporate policy, State and Federal Income Tax Fraud that exceeds $1 BILLION dollars and you wouldn't want a credible, knowledgeable, former employee of one of those companies to stand up and pull the pants down on the IRS.

     If I just display the Forms and documents and authoritatively read this letter at the symposium, it would take about 15 minutes.

     I have been told I have over 80 "dead" links in my web site from those earnest and activist people, groups and organizations that had asked for my assistance and asked that I lend them exposure in my web site for the work they were doing in just the tobacco issues field, alone.

     That said, my commitment to help those whose voices need "amplification" or a "leg-up" is unwavering, however, many of those I attempted to help out didn't stand the test of time.

     The Shuster Project is successfully standing and passing the test of time and we are receiving Awards and accolades for our work because we consistently utilize interactivity, inclusion, factual documentation, we interpret our resources and make them understandable to regular people.

     In addition, I am the most accessible executive director of any grassroots/activist web site I know of on the Internet to make sure that if anyone still has any questions about what they may see in The Shuster Project web site, that they can get in touch with me 24/7 and I will make sure no question goes unanswered.

     If The Shuster Project is going to attend the February event, The Shuster Project is going to participate and speak at the February event.

     The facts that I have revealed to you involving the tax revenues/collections side of our Project demand that we alone present them.

     Whatever the outcome of your decision on this matter, Bob, accept my thanks for your initial offer to attend your February event and please feel free to post our web site address in your "GiveMeLiberty" web site.

     This will afford your members the opportunity to keep abreast of our ongoing work in this area and any other participation by them in our Grassroots Efforts programs that can be found within our web site.

     If you agree to schedule 30-45 minutes for me to make a spirited presentation I will look forward to meeting you in Washington D.C..

     If you don't agree, I hope that we still keep in touch.

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