A FEDERAL judge in the US has cleared the way for the government’s seizure of Dinosaur Adventure Land in Pensacola, Florida.
Kent Hovind
A ruling last week said the nine properties that make up the creationist park, and two bank accounts associated with it will be used to satisfy $430,400 in restitution owed to the federal government.
Kent Hovind, who founded the park and his ministry, Creation Science Evangelism, is serving ten years in federal prison as a result of a tax-fraud conviction for failing to pay more than $470,000 in employee taxes in a long-running dispute with the Internal Revenue Service.
Hovind was found guilty in November 2006 on 58 counts, including failure to pay employee taxes and making threats against investigators.
The East Peoria, Illinois native sparred with the IRS for 17 years before his conviction. He claimed no income or property since he was employed by God and said that his ministers were not subject to payroll taxes.
Hovind is incarcerated at the Edgefield Federal Correction Institution in South Carolina.
His wife, Jo, also was sentenced to a year in federal prison for her role in the tax fraud. She’s currently jailed at the Federal Correctional Institution in Marianna.
US District Judge Casey Rodgers’ 16-page order released late Thursday gives the government the green light to divide up the nine properties in and around the 5800 block of North Palafox Street and begin to sell them until the $430,400 forfeiture amount is satisfied.
One of the exhibits at the museum
The properties have a combined value of more than what the Hovinds owe, according to Rodgers’ order, and any excess property available after the sales will be returned to the Hovinds.
The Hovinds’ son, Eric, and business associate Glenn Stoll unsuccessfully tried to block the government’s attempt to seize the properties. They said they are the legal owners.
Kent Hovind made a series of quick transfers to conceal his ownership of the properties at risk for seizure, according to court documents filed by the US attorney’s office.
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August 4th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Hmmm. If I could get on the Devil's payroll in an official capacity, perhaps I could avoid Income Tax then!
(You've got to applaud their audacity though, haven't you?)
August 4th, 2009 at 11:51 am
Kent Hovind's Creation Park's closed
Because of the money that's owed.
He said: "I don't pay tax
Because it's a fact
I'm employed by the Lord, don't you know?"
August 4th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Yet another in a very long line of fundies exposed as a crook, but still the gullible faithful keep coming. We shouldn’t be surprised; if you can cheat yourself into believing you are working for a sky fairy then tax fraud comes easily.
August 4th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
There is more about the infamous "Dr" Morris Cerullo here: http://www.cephas-library.com/...../evangel...
Although this is an old post, it is significant because the site is a Pentecostal Christian one. Cerullo did go to court in Aug. 2007, but the indictment was dismissed by the judge on a technicality, which involved the prosecutor's failure to explain the Duberstein Test accurately to the jury. (This involves "detached and disinterested generosity" where gifts are made out of "affection, respect, admiration, charity or like impulses"!) Any American readers of this blog are strongly advised to persuade their employers to take them off the payroll forthwith and start to make "gifts" to them to show their "affection, respect, admiration…" Well, you get the picture!!
August 4th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
All together now…
#You're a fucktaaard…aren't you, Kent?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sEIiWKSzJA
BTW, in related news, Mr. Esticles has started popping up on Pharyngula. I predict blood and teeth (his) all over the place.
August 4th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Why not open up out own theme park? The Flying Spaghetti Monster would make for a great roller coaster…
August 4th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Mr. Esticles is a very ignorant individual – a few times now I've followed his sordid trail to his site and read incredulously his absolutely jaw dropping idiocy.
A very sad individual indeed.
August 4th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Shargraves —
Pastor Estes really is a textbook case of Dunning-Kruger syndrome*. While he swans onto atheist blogs, full of sound and fury, he actually signifies nothing (Sorry, Will). No evidence, no reasoning, no…nothing. Someone should tell him that Just asserting something with (supposed) authority, doesn't actually make it true.
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.....er_Syndr...
August 4th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Hey! The FSM was an answer to a question on University Challenge last night!!!
August 4th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Brilliantly covered, as usual, on Jesus and Mo @ http://www.jesusandmo.net/2009/06/19/hold/
August 4th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
What on earth was the question?
August 4th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
You have made a grave error here, Taktix! As FSM is now a fully paid-up Member of the heavenly pantheon, it is forbidden to acually use His divine Name – you must do as Tim correctly does, and refer to Him only as FSM!!
August 4th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
OK this doesn't have much to do with the article, except in so far as it's a theist's interpretation of events….
—->
Dr Andrew Parker, 41, is *******a biologist at Oxford University*******. His latest book, The Genesis Enigma: Why The Bible Is Scientifically Accurate, claims the story of Genesis matches the history of the universe so accurately it could only have been written with divine intervention.
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/in.....ticle.ht...
August 4th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
OK this doesn't have much to do with the article, except in so far as it's a theist's interpretation of events….
Dr Andrew Parker, 41, is *******a biologist at Oxford University********. His latest book, The Genesis Enigma: Why The Bible Is Scientifically Accurate, claims the story of Genesis matches the history of the universe so accurately it could only have been written with divine intervention.
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/in.....ticle.ht...
August 5th, 2009 at 10:02 am
cheers = I knew there HAD to be some sort of classification for that kind of ignorance.
August 5th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
I've just noticed that your title has Ken Hovind, Barry, which explains why I spelt his name that way in the first instance and then had to correct it! I checked on the net, and it seems you're not the only one who's made that slip!!
August 5th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Thanks for pointing that out, Barrie, correction has been made.
August 5th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
If you put "Pics of Kent Hovind" in your address bar, a lot of funny stuff comes up, including a spoof book cover Tax Advice Made Easy! I see that he is another of these fundamentalists who believes that the human race was once giant-sized, and lo and behold, he has a bone to prove it!! If you go to http://thebeattitude.com/ and scroll down to the entry for 27th July ("If there is an intelligent designer, explain human teeth") there is a lot of comment, and some fascinating videos, concerning giant "human" fossils. This is all news to me, even though I used to be a fundamentalist myself, and seems to be an American idea. Although the Bible does mention giants in Genesis, it doesn't seem to imply that ALL men were originally of enormous proportions – in fact those references seem to negate that theory to me! However, there is even more on YouTube (mainly photoshopped fakes of course!), so if you fancy a good laugh have a look!!
August 5th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Fair play, though. He made some profound comments: "A building needs a designer." He could have added that with crooks such as himself tax payers need a tax inspector.
He has that shifty, sly look of the crook Fundie.
August 5th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Whenever I read his blog, I find myself suffering from the Crikey Moses syndrome!
August 6th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Have a look at this review of the book, which was a link from http://www.mediawatchwatch.org...../21/mail... when Christopher Hart was the subject, with regard to his criticism of the film Antichrist, which he had not even bothered to watch! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....200486/T... Apparently he HAD got round to reading the book, and was wetting his pants over the astounding insight of the author, despite the fact that the arguments are as full of holes as a colander – not the least of these being the rather inconvenient fact that the events of Genesis do NOT follow those of the appearance of life on earth (as most of us are well aware) and the author knew it!! Doh!!! (Perhaps it would have been wiser on reflection if Mr Hart had watched the film and NOT read the book!!)
August 6th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
from the mail:
"Evolution is taking place around us all the time. It's why the MRSA superbug has become so dangerously immune to antibiotics, why the race is on to beat the swine flu virus."
evolution is real but that does not mean you have to like it….
August 8th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
We know the Hovinds.Mr. Hovind has several P H D ‘s after his name.I consider him to be a Godly man.HIs entire family are christians.Real christians , not the sort that pretend to be something they are not.
This is not a novice your talking about and have jailed.I predict some intelligent lawyer will see the need to get Mr. Hovind released from his sentence.
This is in the same genre that Jim Bakers case came under.It will come to an end soon .I pray to that end. Hold on Hovinds , the Brotherhood is coming.