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Beanie Babies Tycoon Upset That He Got Jail a Time

Now this story has had me in tears laughing for some weeks now. Ty Warner has completely lost his “beans”.  He got “tapped” for not paying his taxes, was refused entry into an amnesty program to keep himself outta jail (only after he tried to come clean) and now he’s mad because he has to pay the piper and go to jail.

Well Mr. Warner, I’mma need you relax & enjoy “Club Fed” because had you been a “chocolatier” you wouldn’t have gotten those options. Just ask those who came before you: Ron Isley, Lauren Hill & Wesley Snipes to name a few.  Ty Warner better use this as a lesson learned get over it and remember next time to take the deal!!

Beanie Baby billionaire balks at the Big House

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Lawyers for billionaire Beanie Baby creator and convicted tax cheat Ty Warner say he’s “a self-made man with a generous heart,” and a federal judge was right not to send him to the Big House.

Prosecutors were left fuming in January after Warner was handed just two years probation and 500 hours community service for hiding $100 million in secret Swiss bank accounts to con the IRS. In February they asked the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to order Warner be resentenced.

But attorneys for the 69-year-old Oak Brook toy industry titan argued in a 57-page court filing Thursday that the government’s unusual appeal should be thrown out.

U.S. District Judge Charles Kocoras was right to give Warner credit for his lifetime of “concern and generosity to others,” they wrote.

Kocoras — visibly moved by the 70 letters of support sent by beneficiaries of Warner’s largesse, including charities and sick employees he helped — gushed in January that Warner had exhibited a “depth of humanity” that he had never seen in any other criminal defendant.

He noted at the time that the enormous $53 million fine Warner agreed to pay dwarfed the estimated $5 million in taxes he dodged and said: “Society will be best served by allowing him to continue to do his good works.”

Warner’s attorneys wrote in their filing Thursday that Kocoras acted reasonably in sparing Warner, noting that in more than half of similar cases of offshore tax-dodging schemes, defendants also avoided prison time.

They said Warner tried to come clean, but was refused entry to an amnesty program which allowed other offshore tax cheats to escape prosecution.

But prosecutors previously argued that Warner’s crimes were on a far larger scale, adding that Kocoras gave too much weight to Warner’s charitable contributions, given his estimated $2.6 billion wealth.

They noted that Skokie businessman Peter Troost — who hid far less in a similar offshore UBS account, was handed a year behind bars.

At least one small-time Chicago tax cheat — a South Side tax preparer — has also been sent to prison by federal judges since Warner was sentenced in January.

In the meantime, Warner has started his community service at Leo High School on the South Side, where he’s working with teachers to set up an “entrepreneur’s club” for students when the new school year begins in September, Leo president Dan McGrath said.

The appeals court is expected to rule later this year.

Source: Chicago SunTimes

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