SRS - Michel Marin is one of those people I normally sit up and pay attention to. And I think she's right to a point, but there are some problems with this. Nancy Killifer was liened for not paying a Washington DC unemployment tax on domestic help. I'm assuming this has something to do with DC not being a state, so they handle unemployment compensation a little differently, but how did it get to the point where her real property was liened. That seems pretty weird to me. Maybe her illegal help was illegally in the country, and she didn't want that to surface. I don't know, but it seems really strange.

                As far as Tom Daschle is concerned. It's believable that he didn't know the other party was writing the car off as an expense. If the other party was simply absorbing the cost, there would be no liability to Daschle, but he must have gotten notices over and over from the IRS--I've been through this; I know how it works--and he simply ignored them. That too is hard to explain.

               In the end, the Killifer thing is the most puzzling. One can only wonder if there was something more there.