Fugitive Minnesota tax protester in custody

[VinnyZ]

http://www.startribune.com/535/story/1524976.html

[LPC]

Reads more like run-of-the-mill tax evasion (and not denial) to me.

[VinnyZ]

There were articles posted on him here in the past.

I believe that he had consumed more than his fair share of Kool Aid.

From a previous article in the strib:

>>>Beale, a longtime tax protester who at different times cited God, the U.S. Constitution and the tyranny of political societies for his lack of payment, allegedly failed to file four years of state and federal returns on about $5.5 million in income.<<<

[Demosthenes]

He's most definitely a tp.

[Doktor Avalanche]

Fer sure.

[Quixote]

He was on the board of WorldNetdaily from 2000 to 2002. Or from 2000 t0 2004, depending on who you ask. Maybe he's still on the board.

[ASITStands]

Beale was following the imminently successful Jack Smith and Cyndi Beers.

It was an 'admiralty' defense with a twist of 'nolo contendere with counter-claim.' I believe that's all spelled out in the briefs.

Not sure about Beale on the board of WND, but his boy did/does some reporting over there.

[jg]

From http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/Opinions/ ... e.Finl.pdf

In a twenty-one page document self-styled as an application for writ of habeas corpus, plaintiff provides the background upon which his claims in this court lie. Among others, he maintains that he is a “free Sovereign” who was born in the “Maryland Republic” and, as such, should not be subject to federal income tax laws because he does not consider himself to fall within the legal definition of the term “taxpayer” as it is used in various tax laws. Plaintiff’s pleadings total nearly seventy pages of mostly non-sensible conspiracy theory allegations, but this court is able to
surmise two general allegations upon which plaintiff seems to primarily rest.

Although seventy pages may be less than the average length for such filings, iif this is the same man the content of his filings definitely qualify as tax denial nonsense. .

[Joey Smith]

Plaintiff’s pleadings total nearly seventy pages of mostly non-sensible conspiracy theory allegations

That could be the pleadings of pretty much any tax protestor.

[Demosthenes]

Tax-protesting CEO's fugitive life is over
In Florida, federal authorities found Comtrol founder Robert Beale, a Minnesota tax resister who skipped bail during his trial in 2006.

By David Phelps, Star Tribune
Last update: November 02, 2007 – 9:23 PM

Tax protester Robert Beale's 14 months on the lam from federal authorities ended Thursday in the parking lot of an Office Depot in Orlando, Fla.
Beale, a former technology company head, had engaged in running battles with the IRS and the Minnesota Revenue Department, citing God, the U.S. Constitution and tyrannical political societies for his refusal to pay taxes. He became Minnesota's most famous tax resister when he skipped bail on the eve of his tax evasion trial in August 2006.
Until this week, Beale was able to keep ahead of the federal authorities searching for him, although he had a close call shortly after he went into hiding when he dashed from a mobile home in rural western Wisconsin just hours before agents descended on the location.
Beale, 64, accused of failing to pay taxes on more than $5.6 million in personal income, remained in custody Friday in Florida. He is awaiting hearings on bail and his removal to Minnesota.
While Beale was gone, prosecutors added another charge against him -- failure to appear.
Beale was arrested without incident Thursday by members of the fugitive task force of the U.S. Marshals Service in Florida.
Acting on intelligence developed by U.S. marshals in Minnesota, deputies staked out an Orlando residence. On Thursday morning they watched Beale as he left the house, got in a car and drove to an Office Depot, where deputies arrested him.
Beale was carrying identification cards and a fake passport in the name of Robert Johnson, said Deputy U.S. Marshal John Murphy. He would not say how long Beale may have been at that Orlando residence or whether Beale owned the property.
Beale was founder and chief executive of Comtrol Corp. of Maple Grove, a successful computer parts company that now has a new owner. The company employs 60 workers and has annual revenue of $20 million to $25 million.
In 2000, while at Comtrol, Beale changed his employment status from "employee" to "consultant" and billed the company under the name of a shell corporation, the government contends. The shell was a "pass-through" device that allowed Beale to collect his salary through 2004 without reporting it to the IRS, according to prosecutors.
Earlier this year, Comtrol's president and chief operating officer, Lee Stagni, was sentenced to three years and seven months in prison for tax evasion and for aiding and abetting Beale.
An engineer and graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Beale faces a maximum of five years in prison for one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, five counts of tax evasion and one count of failure to appear for his trial in federal court.
Dan Scott, Beale's attorney at the time of the 2006 trial and a former federal public defender, said it will take about three to six weeks to transfer Beale back to Minnesota because of limits to the government's transportation system for prisoners.
Scott has represented clients who have jumped bail before, but said few defendants go that far.
"Forty-nine out of 50 will show up," Scott said.
Scott said he realized Beale would not show for his trial about half an hour before the case was to begin when Beale's family was in the courtroom but Beale was not.
"That was quite a surprise," Scott said. "Here was a businessman who owned a very successful company."

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drove to an Office Depot, where deputies arrested him

Since he didn't claim he would go down in a hail of fire ala Ed: family Brown, at least he looks less silly.

[Imalawman]

yup, Beale is rather infamous in these here parts as a rabid TP.

[Demosthenes]

I wonder if Beale was hiding out in Wisconsin at the same time that Sonny was there assisting someone an Ed Brown clone to "make the stand."