The husband of President Obama’s Labor secretary nominee paid about $6,400 Wednesday to settle tax liens that had been outstanding for as long as 16 years against his business, the Obama administration told USA TODAY this afternoon.
The disclosure came shortly before a scheduled 2 p.m. meeting of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, which will vote on Rep. Hilda Solis’ nomination as labor secretary. The hearing was postponed; no reason was immediately revealed.
Solis’ financial disclosures list Sayyad’s business, Sam’s Foreign and Domestic Auto Center, as one of the couple’s main assets, worth between $50,000 and $100,000. The disclosure form Solis filed after her nomination also lists bank accounts containing between $250,000 and $500,000.Solis and Sayyad were unaware of the liens until USA TODAY asked about them Tuesday, White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said. He said Sayyad paid about $6,400 to Los Angeles County on Wednesday to settle the liens, but he plans to appeal.
Vietor said Sayyad believes he had already paid all of his taxes in full. He said Solis had no reason to know of the liens because her husband’s business is a sole proprietorship.
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Holy Smokes another tax dodger! Don’t anyone on the Obama team pay taxes? Same old song, I didn’t know!
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(1) Crikey: Labor Secy nominee Solis’s husband finally pays up 16-year-old tax liens
Actually, I’m half-inclined to believe them. But Solis is a totally sold-out Big Labor stooge and a crypto-socialist, so I hope she’s forced to withdraw.
These people are smarter than that..they knew and got caught!