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Nominees sunk by tax and nanny problems for years (AP)

 

Published 1/14/2009 at Yahoo! News: Politics News

AP - The one excuse President-elect Barack Obama's nominees shouldn't be using if they encounter tax and nanny problems is that they didn't realize there would be a problem. Since 1993, unpaid taxes and immigration violations, usually related to household help, have sunk more than one presidential nominee with the whole world watching. But a few have survived to take office anyway. (link)

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