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MUST READ FROM THE STAR TRIBUNE: “BUSINESS MISHAPS THREATEN FRANKEN CAMPAIGN”
By Michael B. Brodkorb | April 25, 2008
“Al Franken’s career as an entertainer made him famous and rich and positioned him to run for the U.S. Senate.
But now, just as he appears on the verge of securing the DFL endorsement to take on Republican Sen. Norm Coleman, Franken could be tripped up by missteps in the way his show business enterprise was run.
Republicans, who for more than a year have eagerly unearthed controversial tidbits from Franken’s comedy routines and books, have in recent weeks discovered several slip-ups in the celebrity’s business life. On Thursday, they claimed to have found another possible irregularity, a charge that has yet to be resolved.
On Friday, Franken’s campaign manager, Andy Barr, declined to say whether Franken had paid taxes on earnings in California between 2003 and 2007.
He said Franken’s accountant is working with California officials to sort things out.
The latest Republican charge that Franken’s taxes there have gone unpaid comes in the wake of earlier disclosures that Franken failed to pay workers’ compensation and disability premiums in New York and botched the dissolution of his California corporation.
Since then, Franken has paid more than $25,000 in fines to New York and still owes more than $4,700 in corporate taxes and fines to California.” Source: Star Tribune, April 25, 2008
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