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	Richard Michael Simkanin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard Michael Simkanin is a tax protester convicted in United States federal court of tax evasion in 2004.
		Simkanin had appeared in an advertisement in USA Today in which he announced that he had not withheld income taxes from the paychecks of his company's employees because he believed the income tax to be voluntary.
		Simkanin was sentenced to 84 months in federal prison.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Michael_Simkanin (117 words)

	7203 - Enhanced Sentence p1
		Simkanin testified that the Bible told him that God is entitled to the first fruits of a person's labor and that if he withheld taxes from his employees, then he was stealing the first fruits of their labor.
		Simkanin does not specifically identify all of the evidentiary rulings that he claims were erroneous; rather, he advances a broader contention that the district court's evidentiary rulings as a whole prejudiced his ability to assert his defense.
		Simkanin avers that the district court's evidentiary rulings were not evenhanded because it permitted the government to introduce §3402 as proof that Simkanin had been shown, and therefore actually was aware of, the correct law concerning withholding.
	www.irstaxattorney.com /Fraud-Statutes/7203_Enhanced_Sentence_p1.html (9367 words)

	7203 - Admissibility 1 p1
		Simkanin primarily attempted to establish that he did not willfully violate the tax laws because he held a good-faith belief that he was not obligated to pay individual income taxes or to withhold employment taxes from the wages paid to Arrow's employees.
		Simkanin stated that because Arrow did not operate in any of the listed industries or perform any of the listed activities, he concluded that Arrow's workers were not employees under the IRC and that he therefore was not required by law to withhold taxes.
		Simkanin's last argument with respect to his conviction is that the district court unfairly and arbitrarily excluded defense evidence and restricted the scope of cross-examination, thus hampering the presentation of his good-faith defense.
	www.irstaxattorney.com /Fraud-Statutes/7203_Admissibility_1_p1.html (9317 words)

	Richard Michael Simkanin Conviction Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Simkanin has been in federal custody since his arraignment on June 27, 2003 when evidence was presented to the Honorable United States District Judge John McBryde that Simkanin did not accept the authority of the federal courts.
		Simkanin told one of his accountants that as a "Free Man," he was not obligated to pay taxes or collect the taxes of his employees.
		Simkanin testified that he was aware of the IRS website that listed the court cases that had rejected his position.
	www.usdoj.gov /usao/txn/PressRel04/simkanin_convict_pr.html (952 words)

	The Simkanin Trial: Was it a Lawful Trial by Jury? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There is a big difference between a "court of record", which is a proceeding according to the course of the common law and the magistrate is independent of the court, to what is called a nisi prius court, or a court of no record, of which the parties consent to the action.
		Simkanin was tried as an artificial entity RICHARD MICHAEL SIMKANIN, or another term for this is a fiction at law.
		Simkanin, according to the "court", agreed to it by implied "consent."
	www.worldnewsstand.net /04/article/1-16.htm (1055 words)

	Appeal Exposes Sham Tax Trial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Simkanin is appealing his conviction for multiple tax charges stemming from his belief that no law required him to withhold taxes from the paychecks of his workers and no law required him to file a federal tax return.
		Simkanin was one of five business owners featured as part of a series of full-page ads (http://www.GiveMeLiberty.org/ads) sponsored by the We The People Foundation appearing in the nationwide edition of USA TODAY in 2001 and 2002 that exposed many details of the income tax fraud.
		Simkanin's first trial (November, 2003) ended with a hung-jury that refused to convict him after DOJ attorneys failed to establish for the Court record that ordinary workers of privately owned American businesses are “employees” as the term is legally defined and applied throughout the Internal Revenue Code.
	www.worldnewsstand.net /05/article/6-26.htm (934 words)

	Richard Michael Simkanin Indictment Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Simkanin was arrested this morning and made his initial appearance before United States Magistrate Judge Charles Bleil this afternoon.
		Richard Michael Simkanin was the President of Arrow, and at the time of its incorporation, the sole shareholder of Arrow.
		The indictment alleges that on January 28, 2000, Simkanin filed false and fraudulent claims for refund when he requested refunds on taxes totaling $234,515 which Simkanin had previously withheld from Arrow employees during the period from March 1997 through December 1999.
	www.usdoj.gov /usao/txn/PressRel03/simkanin_ind_pr.html (494 words)

	LP: Tax Protester Wins One Over US Government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Simkanin made the strategic mistake of openly declaring his contempt for the government, in ways that could possibly be construed as threats (although it appears he was really only warning them of the hellfire that would await them in the afterlife).
		Simkanin once wrote to the Treasury secretary that he had repatriated himself from the United States to the “Republic of Texas,” angering federal employees who consider that any citizen of a state of the union is automatically a citizen of the United States of America and that any argument to the contrary is frivolous.
		Simkanin was charged with failing to collect and pay $175,000 in taxes on his employees’ wages from January 2000 through December 2002 and filing fraudulent claims for tax refunds totaling $234,515 for the years 1997 through 1999.
	www.libertypost.org /cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=30551 (1279 words)

	Free Dick Simkanin
		Simkanin was the appellant and it was his attorney that spoke to the court first.
		Simkanin's attorney had reserved several minutes for which to rebut the governments arguments, which he did, focusing not only on Dick's unfair trial but also on his excessive and illegal sentence.
		Simkanin by calling him names such as anti-government, tax protestor, etc. The judges listened for about 8 to 9 minutes, then asked the D.C. prosecutor if they had any facts to present.
	dicksimkanin.blogspot.com (3425 words)

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		US 498, 192, 111 S Ct 604 (1991) [proposed for filing but not filed] as to Richard Michael Simkanin : that there be a hearing for the court to consider any matters that need to be considered in advance of trial...counsel for each party and dft be present at the hearing.
		Dft present.Hearing as to Richard Michael Simkanin held on 7/10/03.
		Dft present on line.Telephone Conference as to Richard Michael Simkanin held on 7/9/03.
	irwinschiff.homestead.com /files/Simkanin_Docket_Sheet.doc (3046 words)

	Talis Qualis by David L. Wallace: January 2005 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Richard Michael Simkanin was called himself a "Christian Patriot" and a "political prisoner." A political prisoner who could respond to the question, "Ask not what your country can do for you," and respond that he did seven years for his country.
		Simkanin rose to fame in tax protester circles in March 2001, when he appeared in a full-page ad in USA Today to announce his opposition to federal income taxes.
		The judge cited Simkanin's history of radical anti-government beliefs and his "contempt and disrespect" for the federal government and the federal courts.
	www.davidlwallace.com /archives/2005_01.html (3048 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Dick Simkanin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In January, the owner of Arrow Custom Plastics, Richard Simkanin, was convicted in federal court in Texas of 29 counts of willful failure to withhold taxes and submitting false or fraudulent claims for refunds.
		Dick Simkanin, business owner of Arrow Custom Plastics was recently convicted of tax crimes in a rigged Texas federal court.
		Dick Simkanin studied the details of the U.S. tax laws, he repeatedly asked the government to "show him the law" and when it refused - he acted upon the words and letter of the written law.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Simkanin_Dick_18368534.htm (302 words)

	Boast of Refusal to Pay Taxes Leads to 27-Count Indictment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Simkanin quit the tax system in January 2000, The New York Times reported.
		He was charged with 12 counts of failure to withhold, collect and account for taxes on money paid to his employees, and 15 felony counts of filing false applications for refunds.
		In interviews with the news media, Simkanin and other business owners bragged about not paying taxes for as long as 22 years.
	www.nysscpa.org /home/2003/0603/4week/printversion9.htm (185 words)

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		A federal grand jury in Fort Worth handed up a 27-count indictment against Richard Michael Simkanin of Euless, Texas, the owner of Arrow Custom Plastics, an injection molding business in Bedford, Texas.
		Simkanin quit the tax system in January 2000.
		In earlier interviews with the media, Simkanin and others had bragged about not paying taxes for as long as 22 years, and they cited the lack of action against them as proof that the tax laws are a hoax, The New York Times reported.
	www.etrucker.com /apps/news/article.asp?id=39639 (217 words)

	Bad Attitudes: Render Not Unto Cæsar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The business owner singled out, we learn, is one Richard Michael Simkanin — a Christian and a Texan who believes that “any government officials who move against him will be consumed by fire.”
		Think about that for a while — not just the 1,500 wingnuts like Simkanin but the 80 percent of known tax evaders of all kinds.
		Simkanin justifies with his stance with Bible quotes.
	badattitudes.com /MT/archives/000445.html (364 words)

	Class Notes \| The University of Memphis Magazine
		Michael T. Ledbetter (BS, MS '70) is dean of the College of Science and Mathematics at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
		Richard Feltus (BBA) is vice president and manager of the residential construction-lending group at Independent Bank.
		Simkanin received the PRSA Silver Quill Award for outstanding leadership skills in the public relations profession and contributions to the chapter.
	www.memphis.edu /magazine/v23i3/classnotes.html (2836 words)

	W.I.L. Offshore News Digest for Week of November 24, 2003
		Council for Civil Liberties chairman Michael Bott said the bill gave the state an “unprecedented right to snoop.” “New Zealanders should be very concerned, this is another case of eroding the democratic rights of law-abiding people to go about their lives,” he said.
		The defendant, Richard M. Simkanin, 59, who says he is a citizen of the Republic of Texas and not of the United States, was returned to jail, where he has been held since July, until a new trial begins in Federal District Court.
		Simkanin obtained written opinions from a lawyer and a certified public accountant that he was not required to withhold, his lawyer, said.
	www.trustprofessionals.com /news/2003/2003-11-24.html (12214 words)

	Blog Against The Machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mike McKinney of the Treasury’s Inspector General office in Washington DC, recently contacted Richard and Victoria Osborn of TPI, a Colorado Springs forensic accounting firm, to inform them that materials produced by TPI were being sent to Treasury field investigators looking into alleged illegal data tampering by IRS personnel.
		An un-named source at the Internal Revenue Service was quoted as saying, "If news of Bob Schulz starts burning up the blogger community airwaves, and if all his ilk in the tax honesty movement start blogging on a daily basis, and God help us, if he starts his own blog, we're dead in the water.
		Steven Beresford started blogging on a daily basis and began to educate all the lame bloggers accross the land, well then, by God, that would surely spell the end of the Evil Empire to be sure.
	dougkenline.blogspot.com /2002_06_23_dougkenline_archive.html (9225 words)

	A Life of Freedom
		It is my desire to live as an upstanding member of the community, to be known as a man of integrity.
		But amazingly that is what got Dick Simkanin sent to Federal prison.
		I have come to the conclusion that Thomas Paine was the Michael Moore of his time.
	nossn.blogspot.com (1443 words)

	Thompson News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I'll be using the Dick Simkanin case as an example of what is happening.
		In the caption of the case, the terms RICHARD MICHAEL SIMKANIN is of course a legal fiction, or debtor, and the real man Richard Michael Simkanin is the creditor.
		Since the "courts" appear operate in commerce or a form of law merchant, they need the evidence from the defendant himself to proceed.
	www.thompsonnews.blogspot.com /2004_03_01_thompsonnews_archive.html (5482 words)

	Law? You don't need no steenking law.
		His defense was based on his lack of "willfulness".
		There was no need to instruct the jury on something that Simkanin did not dispute.
		Ed Senter's B.S. about the "exact wording of the law", shown as the B.S. it is above, means I am not going to search the transcript to prove him wrong regarding the immediate statement above.
	www.synapticsparks.info /tax/stinking.html (1878 words)

	Bad Attitudes: June 2003 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The unadmitted purpose of the Yales and the Harvards and the Michigans is not to produce fully functional lawyers, but to serve as a free executive search service for the big law firms.
		This was the last paragraph of a story in today’s New York Times headlined, “Rumsfeld Says All Reports Pointed to Iraq Arms.” The officer quoted is General Richard B. Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
		I found this old Village Voice article by Michael Bérubé via a link on Atrios.
	badattitudes.com /MT/archives/2003_06.html (9226 words)

	HiddenMysteries Information Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This file contains the actual transcripts of the trial of United States of America v.
		Richard Michael Simkanin as presided over by Judge John McBryde of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division.
		This article is an Adobe Acrobat PDF File
	www.hiddenmysteries.org /law/research/justicedenied.html (48 words)

	Rose Lear
		Oh my Lord, let the sword of St. Michael be swift and Just!
		Michael the Archangel, defend us in the day of Battle;
		Be our safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the Devil.
	roselear.blogspot.com (5277 words)

	Left2Right: Don Herzog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Richard Posner has proposed buying and selling babies, or "parental rights," to get rid of those noxious queues at adoption agencies: most of us flinch, even though he's got to be basically right about the queues.
		Chairman, they would be amazed that we are even discussing this today.
		Addressing the House in 1/7/'03 to denounce the efforts of Michael Newdow to have the words "under God" removed from the pledge of allegiance, Rep. Bartlett strung together another parade of great American public figures saluting God and Christianity.
	left2right.typepad.com /main/don_herzog (13631 words)

	Hornberger's Blog - June 2003
		(The Simkanin case is the subject of the second Income Tax article that we’ve linked to in today’s FFF Email Update.)
		Assuming that the Sixth Amendment will still be operational when his trial comes up, perhaps Simkanin will subpoena Everson to testify on his behalf as an expert witness.
		Better yet, maybe the Ft. Worth grand jury that indicted Simkanin should consider indicting Everson for falsely and fraudulently representing to the American people that the federal income tax is based on “voluntary compliance.” At the very least, shouldn’t the feds go after him for violating “truth in advertising” laws?
	www.fff.org /blog/jgh2003-06.asp (9170 words)

	WTP of Arizona - projects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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		PLEASE REMEMBER DICK SIMKANIN After four requests for more time, Simkanin's attorney is apparently about ready to file his Brief on Behalf of Appellant Simkanin.
		One would argue that it is better to take the time to prepare a persuasive and winning argument than to rush the appeal brief and fall short.
	www.wtpaz.org /Projects/vigilance/banister/updates/update3.htm (2271 words)

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