Trump’s Pick For Fed Seat Owes $75,000 in Taxes: IRS Claim.
The Guardian newspaper is reporting that “a claim for the debt was filed against (Stephen) Moore by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in January last year at the circuit court in Montgomery county, Maryland, where Moore has a home”.
Trump picked Moore last Friday. Moore is a conservative econ TV commentator who has long pushed for reduced taxes and in 2017 called Trump’s tax cuts “death to Democrats”.
As background, The Guardian reported last week that “Moore created a controversial political group during the 2008 presidential election campaign with his friend Paul Erickson, a veteran Republican operative. Erickson has been indicted on federal charges of money laundering and tax fraud and his girlfriend, Maria Butina, pleaded guilty to working as a Russian agent”.