IRS wants “all they can get”! False – they collected $0 from Obama when he received the Nobel Peace Prize of $146,000,000 in 2008. That “income” was a “capital gains income” that should have yielded 60% or over $80,000,000 in tax revenue for which Obama has paid zilch! Just think how much that will total with “penalty and interest”! AND Obama wants everyone to pay their fair share!?

I am not so sure you would be making a good name for yourself as most people in that City would wonder why you and the City were wasting so much money on such fruitless cases…

Look they did wrong But prosecution and from a Cities budget stand point what a waist of money that would be.

I think if an individual players that did got knocked out of a game if they wanted to file a civil suit then that is up to them but good luck getting other players to file any charges….

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Remember, this is not a traffic violation – this is a criminal conspiracy to inflict injury upon another person. With overall public opinion reacting negatively to the way the NFL has handled injuries in the past, I think most people (NFL fans would probably be split) would approve of this action as a way to clean up the game. The first prosecutor to initiate criminal proceedings will be the one that gets the most facetime. You can’t buy this type of PR.

Also, it’s not the individual that files charges, it’s the State. You do not need the cooperation of the victim to pursue a criminal prosecution. If a person was injured during the game, it’s a matter of public record. They wouldn’t even need to be involved. Also, with the NFL report totaling 50,000 pages, all the heavy lifting has already been done. All a prosecutor needs to do is get a copy and run with it.

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A group of players decide that if opposing player X gets knocked out of the game because of injury, the person delivering the blow gets $1500. DB John Doe knocks Player X out of the game and willingly collects the cash payment. That is obvious proof of intent.

As for the cash payments – the NFL report and supporting documentation runs 50,000 pages. The league has obviously tracked the payments in order to make their case. If not, a couple of subpoenas to the players involved will create a stampede of players willing to sing to make a deal.

I am not so sure you would be making a good name for yourself as most people in that City would wonder why you and the City were wasting so much money on such fruitless cases…

Look they did wrong But prosecution and from a Cities budget stand point what a waist of money that would be.

I think if an individual players that did got knocked out of a game if they wanted to file a civil suit then that is up to them but good luck getting other players to file any charges….

And for those who don’t believe that stat, it’s from your liberal bible the NY Times: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/top-1-paid-more-in-federal-income-taxes-than-bottom-95-in-07/

A tackle is within the rules of the game. Paying someone to intentionally harm another player is OUTSIDE the rules of the game, and subject to the laws of the jurisdiction where the incident took place. According to your convoluted logic, anything is permissible as long as it takes place on the field. If you recall, an NHL player was recently charged for a hit on an opposing player.
————-———————————————————————–First off you are missing a very vital point of this argument. In order to prove that any of these players were paid to “intentionally” harm another player you have to prove intent. You have to be able to prove that a player knowingly and intentionally went out and harmed anothe player. In the NHL incident it was easy to prove intent, because there were punches thrown and the players head was slammed into the ice by the other player. That is by all accounts an assault. Oh good luck proving anyone accepted any monies for said “intentional harm”. I’m pretty sure the team didn’t issue checks that stated, “bonus for intentionally harming Brett Favre”. Unless someone was secretly recording these transactions or someone confesses to being paid a certain amount of money for taking these actions it’s not going anywhere. Tracking cash payments is gonna be tough to do.

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Scenerio: I’m up for a big promotion at work in two weeks (let’s call it Super Promotion XLIV). However, to be considered, I need to have an interview this Sunday against another person. In order to increase my odds, I offer any of my coworkers $10,000 to injure my competition so he can’t make it to the interview. (where did I hear of something similar happening? Oh yeah, Saints LB Jonathan Vilma offered $10K to any teammate that would knock Brett Favre out of the 2009 NFC Championship Game)

You would consider that legal?

A tackle is within the rules of the game. Paying someone to intentionally harm another player is OUTSIDE the rules of the game, and subject to the laws of the jurisdiction where the incident took place. According to your convoluted logic, anything is permissible as long as it takes place on the field. If you recall, an NHL player was recently charged for a hit on an opposing player.

I respectfully disagree with the poster on the RICO laws. I’ve seen them used in a very broad scope in the Federal courts. Although I would admit that it would take a ballsy U.S. Attorney to go that route.

If they have some documented proof that a guy got a $10,000 payment and didn’t pay tax on it, they’ll say “hey, you owe ____ on that, pay up”, and unless the guy is either A) an idiot that made $900,000 a year and doesn’t have two or three-thousand dollars to pay it or B) the guy decides to say “screw you IRS, i’m not paying sheeoot”, the player will just pay the money and everyone goes home.

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IRS doesn’t care.

If you derive an economic benefit from something and it is not exempted in a specific provision, you are legally obligated to report it and pay taxes on it.

Thanks, it was sort of a rhetorical question.

Hey legal genius, it would not be assault, but would be considered battery. Assault is a verbal or physical threat to a person. Battery would be the actual physical contact. So with your legal genius thinking, then every tackle by every player in the NFL would be considered battery because it causes physical harm to the body, whether they are taken out of the game or not. Leading with the helmet, would be considered aggravated battery because the helmet could be considered a weapon of harm.

It’s never enough.

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It’s never enough.

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http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc419.html

you are required to include ALL gambling winnings, and you can deduct gambling losses if you itemize expenses

under certain circumstances (which are probably what you are referring to), a payer is required to issue a form W-2G and withhold 25% of the winnings for federal income taxes

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/iw2g.pdf

No…RICO cases are for interstate conspiracy to commit crimes violations. Unless owners were funding the bounties for away games and they conspired with counterpart owners in different states on multiple occasions, there is no RICO case. Not even at all.

But this is something that’s only going to get worse and worse for everybody.

I make all sorts of crazy bets in my office. We have elevator races for $20 each. I don’t report that as income.

you can take deductions for expenses incurred in an illegal activity or business so long as it has nothing to do with drugs
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I agree. All you have to do is claim it as income and pay the tax. Most smart bookies claim their betting action (or at least a necessary portion of it) as income. That way, no Federal laws are broken.