Time: Mon Sep 15 06:24:27 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA17296; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 06:20:35 -0700 (MST) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA28909; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 06:17:11 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 06:16:53 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: USAToday-IRS after Paula Jones (fwd) <snip> > >http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/ncs9.htm > >Paula Jones receives an IRS audit notice > >WASHINGTON - The IRS is scrutinizing Paula Jones' income taxes, her legal >fund chairman said Sunday, describing the move as "very peculiar" coming >days after Jones rejected a settlement proposal and her lawyers quit. > >Jones and her husband, Stephen, received a notice Friday that they would be >audited for their 1995 tax return, said Susan Carpenter-McMillan, Jones' >adviser and chairman of the Paula Jones Legal Fund since July. > >The notice arrived roughly a week after a Little Rock, Ark., judge granted >a request from Jones' lawyers to leave the case. The lawyers, Gil Davis and >Joseph Cammarata, said they had "fundamental differences of opinion" with >Jones, who rejected a proposed settlement that involved giving her $700,000 >and a statement of regret from Clinton for any damage to her reputation. > >While stopping short of calling the audit outright retaliation, >Carpenter-McMillan said it seemed strange that federal auditors were >suddenly so interested in the Joneses, who own little property and live off >of Stephen Jones' $37,000 annual salary. > >"I find the timing very peculiar," Carpenter-McMillan said in an interview. >"I would only ask the American public what they think about the timing. >Most people in the public would find it a little odd." > >White House spokesman Lanny Davis declined comment Sunday, referring >reporters to Clinton attorney Robert Bennett. Bennett was traveling and >unavailable for comment Sunday. > >Jones, a former Arkansas state employee, filed a lawsuit claiming that >Clinton asked her for oral sex in a Little Rock hotel room during a May >1991 conference he attended as governor of Arkansas. Clinton has denied >Jones' accusation, saying he does not remember meeting her. > >In an appearance Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," Carpenter-McMillan said >Jones is entitled to an apology or "some kind of clarification" from >Clinton to make up for the >humiliation hurled at her by "frothing pit bulls out of the White House." > >"This has never been about money for Paula," Carpenter-McMillan said. "If >she took my advice, I would say, 'What you demanded in (1994) is very >different than what you should demand today,' what they put her through the >last three or four years." > >She asked that Jones' grievances be resolved in a way that's "broad enough, >obviously, for the president to accept it but narrow enough for Paula to >accept it." > >As for the audit, Carpenter-McMillan said she was "just appalled" when she >learned of it, and said there is nothing about Jones, a housewife with no >job, that should draw IRS scrutiny. > >"They're a family with two little children. They have one car, they rent a >little apartment," Carpenter-McMillan said. "How many people renting and >making under $40,000 a year get audited?" > >She said Jones is not involved in her legal defense fund, which The >Washington Times reported has collected between $250,000 and $300,000 in >small gifts on Jones' behalf. > >"She never signed a check. She doesn't even get the bank statements," >Carpenter-McMillan said. > > > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell : Counselor at Law, federal witness B.A., Political Science, UCLA; M.S., Public Administration, U.C. Irvine tel: (520) 320-1514: machine; fax: (520) 320-1256: 24-hour/day-night email: [address in tool bar] : using Eudora Pro 3.0.3 on 586 CPU website: http://www.supremelaw.com : visit the Supreme Law Library now ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this As agents of the Most High, we came here to establish justice. We shall not leave, until our mission is accomplished and justice reigns eternal. ======================================================================== [This text formatted on-screen in Courier 11, non-proportional spacing.]
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