Footnotes: Naked Day at Boehner’s; Some non-$500 Million Lotto News; Polling Tax Profs | 11.27.12

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Caleb Newquist

Three Arrested After Nude Protest in Boehner’s Office [WSJ]

HP-Autonomy: A Red-Ink Bath for Everyone [Re:Balance]

Raising Corporate Taxes Is Good, not Bad, for Jobs [HBR]

Former SC lotto accountant charged with embezzlement [TS]

Tax Prof Poll: Taxes and the Fiscal Cliff Two professors don't see anything happening. Ever. [TaxProf]

Woman Jailed For Attacking Beau Over Bad Sex Raquel Gonzalez, 24, was arrested Monday afternoon for felony domestic battery and booked into the Manatee County lockup, where bail has not been set. […] According to a Manatee County Sheriff’s Office report, Gonzalez and Esric Davis, 30, are “boyfriend and girlfriend who live in the same home and are involved in a sexual relationship.” Deputies noted that Davis and Gonzalez were “involved in sexual intercourse” when “Esric then climaxed and Raquel did not.” Which reportedly angered Gonzalez, who allegedly “began hitting and scratching [Davis], causing scratches near his eye and nose.” [TSG]

Yele Haiti Names RSM McGladrey as New Accountants

Caleb Newquist
January 23, 2010

Are you paying attention Fortune? After last week’s controversy around the finances of Yele Haiti, RSM McGladrey has been appointed to administer the donations pledged to Wyclef Jean’s foundation.

Yele Haiti has also retained Grant Thornton, who filed the three years of tax returns for the foundation just last August.

All the hubbub was over the foundation less than timely filing of its tax returns and paying expenses on the behalf WJ’s production company.
Not filing tax returns is one thing but there is some debate over whether the payment of expenses is actually anything to worked up over:

John Colombo, a University of Illinois law professor specializing in tax-exempt organizations, said tax laws permit such fees.
“If you told me the organization raised $1 million and it all went to him, then I would have some issues,” Colombo said. “Paying him an arm’s length salary for services he actually performed just isn’t a problem.”
But Alvin Brown, a tax lawyer who runs the site IRSTaxAttorney.com, said such transactions were “scary” and “could be viewed as fraud.”

“Viewed as fraud” isn’t the same as “is a fraud” but we after the last week, Yele Haiti has heard worse.
Wyclef’s Haiti Charity Gets New Accountants [AP]
Earlier:
We Knew Accounting Firms Were Helping Haiti