# Survivor:  Club Fed

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-club-fed/341606>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 25, 2006, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-club-fed/341606 "2006-01-25T20:59:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-club-fed/341606/1 "2006-01-25T20:59:20Z")

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Convicted and in custody as a flight risk:

[http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/01/25/survivor.taxes.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/01/25/survivor.taxes.ap/index.html)  
VCNJ~

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-club-fed/341606/2 "2006-01-25T21:08:32Z")

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What a maroon.

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**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-club-fed/341606/3 "2006-01-25T21:35:13Z")

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He didn’t do as well in front of this jury as he did the last…

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-club-fed/341606/4 "2006-01-25T21:50:44Z")

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Do you think there’s any truth to Hatch’s comment:

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> During the course of the trial, Hatch’s lawyer, Michael Minns, said Hatch caught fellow contestants cheating and struck a deal with producers for the show to pay his taxes if he won. But, ultimately, Hatch was never asked about the allegation when he testified.

Sounds to me like a lot of shite de bovine, but who knows.

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> Minns instead argued that Hatch was the “world’s worst bookkeeper” and said his client never meant to do anything wrong.

I don’t know how much he paid that lawyer, but if that’s the best he could come up with as a defense it was too much. I think he’d have done much better to have plead guilty, give them the money (which is all they wanted probably) and just get on with his damned weird self-absolving life.

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**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-club-fed/341606/5 "2006-01-25T22:16:39Z")

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Oh, I dunno.

I distinctly remember every one of my clients (that I worked for on a 1099 basis) PROMISING they’d pay all my income tax and SS tax even though the agreement was that I was responsible for them.

I know for a fact that when my 1099’s came with no withholding, it was just multiple cases of accounting errors.

I’m sure that the money is in the hands of the Feds and I am fine with paying no income tax and will bear that in mind when I do my taxes in a few months.

SEE YA SOON, RICHARD!!