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Well about six weeks later I got tired of waiting for Doug’s call so on
08-12-99 around 2:45 I called for Johnny Powell and was told that he was not
there. I left the message that I wanted to talk to him before I went back to
Senator Roth’s office and explained the run around that I was receiving from
them.
At 2:48 Bill Holmes called me back and said that Johnny Powell was busy but
that he would call me back.
At 2:49 I then called Mary Coleman from the IRS. She said that before she
said anything that she will talk to Johnny Powell and get back to me on Monday.
On Monday, 08-16-99 I got tired of waiting for Johnny Powell to call me so
at 1:44 I called Mary Coleman’s office again. I was told that she was in a
meeting but that she would call me back.
Around 3:45 Mary Coleman returned my call and told me that I should talk with
Johnny Powell instead of Doug Cline about any missing payments. Then she told
me that as far as being paid for anything else, including the Patent and the
two companies the IRS destroyed, I should just file suit against the IRS.
On 08-17-99 around 10:38 I called Johnny Powell’s office as Mary Coleman
asked but I was told that he is on vacation.
| On 08-20-99 I got tired of getting the run around from Doug Cline and Johnny
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Again on 08-24-99 around 11:28 I called Johnny Powell’s office and left the
message that I was tired of playing games with them so I would go back to
Senator Roth and see if he couldn’t help me.
On 08-30-99 I came home and there was a message on the recorder from Johnny
Powell that he didn’t care if I contacted Senator Roth’s office because my
letter would just be referred back to him anyhow. I thought to myself that he
was probably right but I was going to finish and send the letter anyhow.
The following day I met Mark McBride, my past tax attorney, and Dennis
Strong for lunch. I explained to Mark that the Senate Finance Committee looked
into my complaint against the IRS and decided that not only was the IRS wrong
but that they had no reason to do this to me. Mark agreed and said that he
never could figure out why the IRS was so passionate and persistent in their
attempt to destroy me over such a small amount of money.
I then told Mark that the IRS was playing games saying that they could not
find some of the payments. I told him that I suggested that they talk to Lenna
Kirby and ask her what she did with the money but Johnny Powell said that they
didn’t know where she was. Mark told me that they were lying to me because he
knew that Lenna Kirby was living in Cincinnati. I then gave a copy of the
manuscript to Mark so he could read what I had written about him. I told him
that if he disagreed with anything I had written regarding how the IRS handled
my case when he represented me, to let me know so we could get it worked out
before the book went into print.
On 08-31-99 I finished my letter to Senator Roth and around 4:40 I faxed it
to his office. I also faxed a copy to Johnny Powell’s office. The letter read:
SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE
ATTN: SENATOR WILLIAM V. ROTH, JR.
DIRKSEN BUILDING ROOM #219
WASHINGTON, DC. 20510
Senator Roth,
This is my third letter to you regarding a dispute I have had for the last
14 years with the IRS, letters 1 and 2 are included, in an attempt to at least
get back the money that the IRS extorted illegally from me.
Once again, after having the IRS Problem Resolution Office on December 12,
1998 not only decide in my favor and overturn the IRS assessments against me,
they repeatedly told me that they couldn’t understand why the IRS did this to
me in the first place.
Since this decision was made the IRS agreed to abate these assessments,
penalties and interest and return the money they extorted from me at the same
rate ( interest & penalties ) that they charged me which happened to be in
access of 100% to 200% a year.
In April of 1999 I received 6 checks for a total of $20,693.68, copies of
the checks are included.
Unfortunately this amount is not even close to what they took from me or
agreed to pay me, and remember this is just the money they extorted from me,
this doesn’t even begin to compensate me for the loss of my family through
divorce or the 2 businesses the IRS forced me out of or the bankruptcy the IRS
forced me into.
As of my last conversation on August 16, 1999 with Mary Coleman of the IRS,
they now say that they cannot find $7000 they took from my bank account in 1988
or the $8700 cashier check I gave them for the return of a GMC truck they
seized from me in 1989. They also refuse to pay me the $25,000 plus that was
owed to me for the sale of the business the IRS forced me out of.
The IRS placed a lien on the payments from the sale of the business then
decided to go to the new owners home and threaten him that they were going to
take the business away from him so he refused to pay the $25,000 plus balance.
The IRS says that can’t pay this amount because they didn’t receive it. Well,
because of their abusive collection practices, I didn’t collect it either. I
explained that I have paid a lot more than $25,000 in taxes over the 35 years
that I have worked and that I want paid that money.
Now by no means do I think that I am being unreasonable in my demand to be
paid the money the IRS took from me. As a matter of fact, ask yourself Senator
if you would be satisfied if the IRS came to you and trashed your life, your
family and businesses for 14 years then it was decided by the IRS that they
were wrong in doing this to you. Then the IRS makes an agreement for repayment
of the money, then reneges on the agreement and tells you that they can’t find
some of your payments and tells you that if the $20,693.68 isn’t enough
compensation, sue them.
After hearing this from Mary Coleman I asked her as I’ll ask you. If I came
to you and said that I would pay you $1,478.12 every year for 14 years if I
could destroy your life, your family and your businesses you’d probably think
that I was mentally deficient and threaten to call the police if I didn’t leave
you alone.
Imagine then Senator Roth, if you can, that I go ahead and do this to you
without your consent for 14 years, then I pay you $20,693.68 and tell you that
we’re even.
If you answered that question truthfully, you could probably go to prison.
Senator Roth, to what extent would you go to in order to protect your family,
property and businesses?
Then ask yourself what you would think about a person or an agency of the
government that would do something like that to you. Would you trust or believe
in a person of a government agency like that?
What makes this situation even more appalling is that this person or agency
of the government then makes sure that you don’t have the money to fight back,
and on top of that tells you that they can do this to you by law.
Your answer may be this is why we have 2nd Amendment rights.
Senator Roth, on one hand I truly thank you for referring my case to the
Problem Resolution Office in the first place, otherwise I would still have the
IRS trashing my life. On the other hand, after reading your book "THE
POWER TO DESTROY" and discovering that your answer to the abusiveness of
the IRS is to have paperwork, a lot of money and a jar of Vasoline handy I
somewhat lost any hope of getting my situation with the IRS settled where it
would resemble anything fair.
Senator Roth, once again I truly thank you for your assistance in the past
and ask that if I haven’t offended you with this letter, that you could find
the time to hopefully see if there is some way that you could once again assist
me in getting this nightmare over with.
Sincerely,
Donald E. Iiams, Jr.
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