The NH Union Leader, our largest local newspaper here in New Hampshire, reported today that on Jan 30th, 2 weeks before the search warrants, a tax lien was placed on Alderman Thomas Katsiantonis, who last week had his home, two pizza shops, and a third nearby unowned pizza shop searched by federal investigators.
It is reported that he owes nearly 500k in back taxes. While this revelation seems to say this search was unrelated to Pizzagate, it makes me wonder about a few things:
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The Attorney General in NH is still using the same boiler plate response to the investigation and won't explain any further. If the nature of the investigation has been revealed, wouldn't it make sense for her to comment on it?
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Katsiantonis doesn't own Zoey's, which was also searched last week. Why were they searched if this is a tax evasion investigation?
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Is it even realistic for 2 pizza shops to generate a gross $5 million in a period of 1 year? I know first hand visiting all of the places searched that they aren't thriving businesses and tbh are all quite run down. The Union Leader article states he owes the money for the period between Jan 2013 - Jan 2014; with NHs 9% meals tax, that's an estimated $5million in gross revenue. Two mom and pop shops in NH grossing $5 mil seems a bit unrealistic, but I could be wrong. Thoughts?
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Why are the Feds involved in a state tax issue?
What are people's thoughts on the new revelations? Here's a link to the Union Leader article, it could be useful to sleuths because it lists the names of the shell companies he uses for ownership of his pizza shops:
http://www.unionleader.com/local-government/Manchester-alderman-billed-for-427000-plus-in-taxes-02212017
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Not_A_Large_Duck ago
Tax evasion was how they finally put Capone behind bars. A lot of this PG shit is run like a RICO case if half of what's been uncovered is true. Everything is run via proxies, the suspects have a lot of money and power. The added problem which is something Capone didn't have the power to do is affect legislature and public opinion which the current suspects often do.
The most likely scenario to catching them with cases is likely going to be stuff like this. You get someone in jail and heads start rolling in related cases and they will start to believe everyone else is snitching on them and cooperate for reduced sentences.
If Trump just released a video of Podesta and HRC eating a babies arm tomorrow the speculation would be deafening and people would be protesting. If there's 50+ people sitting in jail on cases from CP to tax evasion to human trafficking people are going to start drawing the same conclusions we have which is "something is going on here".
We have taken the fact that there is smoke to extrapolate that there is fire but we haven't found the fire yet. What we need now is a bunch of little sparks and it will begin to feed itself.
I will never underestimate the power of the press after the WMD witch hunt in 2001 which led to the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. We need to make sure when things happen we can provide fully sourced breakdowns for them so shit is irrefutable and we can influence people who weren't interested in looking into it.