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<p>awgee:</p>
<p>What is your take on this Robert Kahre victory? Can you really pay someone $599 silver dollars worth $9584 market value and not issue a 1099?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lvrj.com/news/9893062.html">http://www.lvrj.com/news/9893062.html</a></p>
<p>Informally called the Kahre case -- after the primary defendant, local business owner <a class="inform_highlight" title="Robert Kahre" href="http://www.inform.com/Robert+Kahre">Robert Kahre</a>, who paid workers in gold and silver coins -- the trial lasted four months. It relied heavily on evidence gathered in a controversial armed raid in May 2003 on several of Kahre's local business places. The raid entailed keeping more than 20 workers handcuffed, at gunpoint, in 106-degree heat without shade or water while agents collected records and equipment.</p>
<p>"Yeah, that's a pretty major victory," said defense lawyer <a class="inform_highlight" title="William Cohan" href="http://www.inform.com/William+Cohan">William Cohan</a>. "If you go 0 for 160 (in baseball), they'd send you down to the minor leagues."</p>
<p>Cohan was upbeat although his client, Kahre, was not acquitted of any of his 109 charges. Rather, the jury hung on all of Kahre's counts. </p>
<p>The jury also hung on all counts faced by Kahre's sister, Lori Kahre, and defendant Alex Loglia.</p>
<p>Four defendants acquitted of all the charges against them were Axberg, Robert Furman, Ron Ruggles, and Kahre's mother, Myra Buonomo.</p>
<p>"It was the most wonderful feeling and the most wonderful day in ages," Buonomo, 66, said of her acquittal. She said she works "more or less as a runner" for her son's construction-related businesses. Part of the case hinged on whether Kahre's workers were employees or independent contractors, who are responsible for paying their own taxes.</p>
<p>Two other defendants, Dannielle Alires and Debra Rosenbaum, were partly acquitted, with the jury hung on one count each.</p>
<p>Before trial, five additional defendants had pleaded guilty.</p>
<p>Michael Kennedy, who defended Lori Kahre, said the case turned on the notion that taxpayers could be wrong without being criminal. He was referring to the fact that his client, Lori Kahre, and other defendants had not paid taxes according to the market value of the precious metal content of the coins in which they were paid, as opposed to their face value. He conceded at trial that his client may owe federal taxes for her mistakes.</p>
<p>The Internal Revenue Service had never before provided guidance on how to handle gold and silver coins that circulate, only on noncirculating collectible coins, according to Kennedy, who is a federal public defender. "If that's the case, we're not going to take someone's liberty from them, on something that a (certified public accountant) with a master's degree doesn't even know. That's a scary country, and I don't live in that country." </p>
<p>What is your take on this Robert Kahre victory? Can you really pay someone $599 silver dollars worth $9584 market value and not issue a 1099?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lvrj.com/news/9893062.html">http://www.lvrj.com/news/9893062.html</a></p>
<p>Informally called the Kahre case -- after the primary defendant, local business owner <a class="inform_highlight" title="Robert Kahre" href="http://www.inform.com/Robert+Kahre">Robert Kahre</a>, who paid workers in gold and silver coins -- the trial lasted four months. It relied heavily on evidence gathered in a controversial armed raid in May 2003 on several of Kahre's local business places. The raid entailed keeping more than 20 workers handcuffed, at gunpoint, in 106-degree heat without shade or water while agents collected records and equipment.</p>
<p>"Yeah, that's a pretty major victory," said defense lawyer <a class="inform_highlight" title="William Cohan" href="http://www.inform.com/William+Cohan">William Cohan</a>. "If you go 0 for 160 (in baseball), they'd send you down to the minor leagues."</p>
<p>Cohan was upbeat although his client, Kahre, was not acquitted of any of his 109 charges. Rather, the jury hung on all of Kahre's counts. </p>
<p>The jury also hung on all counts faced by Kahre's sister, Lori Kahre, and defendant Alex Loglia.</p>
<p>Four defendants acquitted of all the charges against them were Axberg, Robert Furman, Ron Ruggles, and Kahre's mother, Myra Buonomo.</p>
<p>"It was the most wonderful feeling and the most wonderful day in ages," Buonomo, 66, said of her acquittal. She said she works "more or less as a runner" for her son's construction-related businesses. Part of the case hinged on whether Kahre's workers were employees or independent contractors, who are responsible for paying their own taxes.</p>
<p>Two other defendants, Dannielle Alires and Debra Rosenbaum, were partly acquitted, with the jury hung on one count each.</p>
<p>Before trial, five additional defendants had pleaded guilty.</p>
<p>Michael Kennedy, who defended Lori Kahre, said the case turned on the notion that taxpayers could be wrong without being criminal. He was referring to the fact that his client, Lori Kahre, and other defendants had not paid taxes according to the market value of the precious metal content of the coins in which they were paid, as opposed to their face value. He conceded at trial that his client may owe federal taxes for her mistakes.</p>
<p>The Internal Revenue Service had never before provided guidance on how to handle gold and silver coins that circulate, only on noncirculating collectible coins, according to Kennedy, who is a federal public defender. "If that's the case, we're not going to take someone's liberty from them, on something that a (certified public accountant) with a master's degree doesn't even know. That's a scary country, and I don't live in that country." </p>
