West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice holds up his canine Babydog arsenic helium comes to the extremity of his State of the State code successful the House chambers, astatine the West Virginia State Capitol successful Charleston, W.Va., Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022.
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The U.S. authorities connected Monday sued Sen. Jim Justice, a West Virginia Republican, and his woman for $5.1 cardinal successful unpaid national income taxes, penalties, and involvement dating to the 2009 taxation filing year.
"Despite announcement and request for outgo of the assessments ...James C. Justice, II, and Cathy L. Justice person neglected oregon refused to marque afloat outgo of those assessments to the United States," the suit filed successful U.S. District Court successful Beckley, West Virginia, alleged.
The lawsuit, filed by the Tax Division of the Department of Justice, asks a justice to participate a judgement successful favour of the U.S. against the mates successful the magnitude of $5,164,739.75, which was the magnitude owed to the Internal Revenue Service arsenic of Aug. 4, according to the filing.
Justice was elected to the Senate successful November 2024, replacing Sen. Joe Manchin, an autarkic who discontinue the Democratic caucus earlier that year.
The coal mining heir antecedently served arsenic politician of West Virginia from 2017 until helium entered the Senate successful January.
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The tax-related suit comes weeks aft a federal justice successful Tennessee recovered Justice liable for much than $29 cardinal successful civilian damages and prejudgment involvement to Lexon Insurance Company implicit a breached surety-bond declaration tied to his ember mining business.
CNBC has requested remark connected the taxation suit from Justice's Senate bureau and from attorneys who person represented him.
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