Louisiana dentist gets 2.5 years

[Demosthenes]

Feds sink teeth into dentist
by Benjamin Alexander-Bloch, The Times-Picayune
Wednesday May 28, 2008, 8:55 PM

For 12 years, Dr. Louis Genard, a Slidell dentist, went to imaginative lengths to avoid paying taxes. Unfortunately for him, the Internal Revenue Service and federal prosecutors don't give extra points for creativity.

Despite renouncing his U.S. citizenship and alternately declaring himself a "citizen of the Republic of Louisiana" and an "ambassador to heaven," Genard's attempts at diplomatic immunity were thwarted Wednesday morning when a federal judge sentenced him to 2 1/2 years in prison.

U.S. District Judge A.J. McNamara ordered him to pay $155,683 in restitution and to reimburse the government for prosecution costs. Genard also will be under federal supervision for at least a year after his release.

Genard, 57, was found guilty of three counts of "willfully failing to file income tax returns" by a federal jury in October. He could have gotten three years in prison for each count.

In 1995, a dispute with the IRS began Genard's stint as a tax protester. A pharmacy he had started went under, and while his bank forgave his loan, the IRS required him to pay taxes on that earned income.

Subsequently, he began writing long letters of appeal to the IRS and stopped filing income tax returns in protest.

He soon began associating with various anti-tax groups. They included We the People Foundation, which purports to "end the illegal operations of the income tax system," and Guiding Light of God Ministries, an organization led by longtime tax protester Eddie Kahn that has since been disbanded by a District Court judge in Florida.

In August 1997, Genard renounced his U.S. citizenship, filing an affidavit that declared him a "sovereign citizen of the Republic of Louisiana," which he sent to the IRS.

"I am not now nor have I ever been a citizen of the United States. I am a citizen of the Republic of Louisiana," the document stated.

The IRS began sending him delinquency notices in 1998, and he responded with lengthy arguments referencing tax-protest literature. The IRS eventually responded that it would no longer communicate with him regarding his stance on income taxes.

Then in something of a swan song during the pretrial stages of the recent criminal case in July, Genard filed a motion seeking dismissal of the charges on the grounds that his status as "Ambassador and Citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven under its King Jesus the Christ" gave him diplomatic immunity from federal jurisdiction. The motion was rejected.

Many anti-tax groups attack the constitutionality of the 16th Amendment that established the federal government's right to levy taxes. Some groups also argue that income taxes violate the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.

U.S. Attorney Jim Letten condemned Genard's actions and said his sentencing "sends a strong message to tax protesters that such arrogant challenges to the payment of federal income taxes will not be tolerated."

[Doktor Avalanche]

And now we say adieu to another idiot.

Adieu, idiot.

[Nikki]

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Then in something of a swan song during the pretrial stages of the recent criminal case in July, Genard filed a motion seeking dismissal of the charges on the grounds that his status as "Ambassador and Citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven under its King Jesus the Christ" gave him diplomatic immunity from federal jurisdiction. The motion was rejected.
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Sounds a lot like Family Guardian / SEDM / Hansen.

It's almost verbatim from some of Crissie's pseudo depositions.

It's a shame he got into evasion so late. He missed the opportunity to rely on Meredith, Schiff, and other early birds.

[Dezcad]

And the dentists forge ahead of the chiropractors...........