firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 1/21/2009
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From NBC's Ken Strickland Treasury Secretary nominee Tim Geithner , the president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, filed his own taxes using Turbo Tax during the period he neglected to pay thousands of dollars in taxes.
Under questioning from Senate Finance Committee Republican member Chuck Grassley, Geithner was very reluctant to disclose which tax filing software he used. He quickly suggested the software wasn't the problem; he was.
But Grassley ...
washingtontimes.com - 1/21/2009
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By: Penny TO MS. Nancy Pelosi, I remember
well how you denounced "Republican" corruption. Well, Madam, take
another look. It is the DEMOCRAT PARTY that is the criminal enterprise, the CESSPOOL of CORRUPTION! When are you going to take on C. Rangel, B. ...
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Gingrich urges GOP to fight Geithner
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dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com - 1/21/2009
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Tuesday's presidential inauguration may have mesmerized the nation,
but today's confirmation hearing of Timothy F. Geithner, President
Obama's nominee to be Treasury secretary, is expected to captivate Wall Street.
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Turbo Tax Blamed For Geithner's Tax Payment Fail
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... It looks as though the makers of Turbo Tax will have to rush out a "Geithner-proof" edition of their tax-pay software between now and April 15, 2009. MSNBC's First Read has the details of how the company got caught up in the extant concerns over the Treasury nominee's tax problems: ...
Turbo Tax Blamed For Geithner's Tax Payment Fail
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... It looks as though the makers of Turbo Tax will have to rush out a "Geithner-proof" edition of their tax-pay software between now and April 15, 2009. MSNBC's First Read has the details of how the company got caught up in the extant concerns over the Treasury nominee's tax problems: ...
Obama’s Treasury Secretary screws up
Sister Toldjah —
You know it’s getting bad when even prominent Democrats found Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s big announcement yesterday on the administration’s financial sector bailout “plan” lacking in important details. They weren’t the only ones, either. Wall Street let the Obama administration know it wasn’t pleased, either.
And Mr. TurboTax was supposed to be “The One We Must Have” for ...
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