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Kent Hovind gets 10 years

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Pensacola evangelist Kent Hovind was sentenced Friday afternoon to 10 years in prison on charges of tax fraud.

After a lengthy sentencing hearing that last 5 1/2 hours, U.S. District Judge Casey Rodgers ordered Hovind also:

-- Pay $640,000 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.

-- Pay the prosecution's court costs of $7,078.

-- Serve three years parole once he is released from prison.
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Prior to his sentencing, a tearful Kent Hovind, also known as "Dr. Dino" asked for the court's leniency.

"If it's just money the IRS wants, there are thousands of people out there who will help pay the money they want so I can go back out there and preach," Hovind said.
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Source: "10 years for 'Dr. Dino' ," Pensacola News Journal, January 19, 2007

An older thread about the trial The Second Week of Kent Hovind's Tax Trial .
 
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Read the comments at the Pensecola newspaper site.

Funny stuff.

Dr. Dino is a first class flimflam artist, and he deserves to be in jail.

The creationist cult will whine forever about it though.
 
Very sad statement on the average intellect of the populace that several of the more verbose comments on that site are supporting him.
Ignorance loves company.
 
I love it when bad things happen to utter *****.

Can I say **** here?
 
I can't help but feel sorry for him. He was always very nice to opponents when I listened to him debate on the ‘infidel guy’ radio show and despite his flawed logic he was pretty well read on religious philosophical history.

He’s just very very deluded.
 
So much for the acquittal that he was praying for. Apparently god was too busy to grant it.
 
Dustin said:
I can't help but feel sorry for him. He was always very nice to opponents when I listened to him debate on the ‘infidel guy’ radio show and despite his flawed logic he was pretty well read on religious philosophical history.

He’s just very very deluded.
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Ignoring his incorrect claims... he might have been nice in those debates, but he's said some really hateful and misguided things about people.

His debate with Shermer is a good example of ridiculing an opponent's claim with false evidence.

Anyone who sells the Protocols of the Elders of Zion because they think its proof of a worldwide conspiracy is scum of the Earth. http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=205

Also a relevant sentence from that SPL Center link:

Environmentalism and income taxes, Hovind says, are designed to destroy the United States and "bring it under Communism."
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Prior to his sentencing, a tearful Kent Hovind, also known as "Dr. Dino" asked for the court?s leniency.

'If it's just money the IRS wants, there are thousands of people out there who will help pay the money they want so I can go back out there and preach,' Hovind said.
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C'mon, Kent! Gunderscored wants you to go in there and preach.
 
A decade for 'Dr. Dino'
Kent Hovind gets 10 years for violating federal tax law

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"I feel like the mouse," Hovind told U.S. District Judge Casey Rodgers. "I stand here in great fear of the power of this court. Your decision can destroy my life, my ministry and my grandchildren."

Hovind's courtroom comments were in stark contrast to more-combative statements he made in recent telephone calls from Escambia County Jail.

In a recording of one of the telephone conversations played in court Friday, Hovind said the Internal Revenue Service, presiding judge and prosecutor broke the law by going after him, and there were things he could do "to make their lives miserable."
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"I am not a tax protester and never have been," Kent Hovind told Rodgers. "The laws are just fine. It is just that some are enforcing laws that are not there."

The recordings, compiled by the IRS from phone conversations from jail, showed Kent Hovind was trying to hide assets from the government, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle Heldmyer said.

In one phone conversation played in court, Kent Hovind was heard to advise a business partner to put only "what you can afford to lose" in a church account.
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Furthermore, Rodgers contended Kent Hovind had failed his fellow citizens and the men and women of the military -- who fight to defend his freedoms -- by refusing to pay taxes.
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Full article: A decade for 'Dr. Dino', Pensacola News Journal, January, 20, 2007

The article, on the right, has a link to the video of phone calls being played.
 
Pensacola News Journal has posted excerpts of Hovind's calls from jail. At: Kent Hovind jail calls, Pensacola News Journal

Listen to Hovind threaten and throw around allegations. His claims are bizarre: "I'm not a tax protestor, they are!"

Kent Hovind jail calls

Conversations of Escambia County Jail inmates are routinely taped. Excerpts of telephone conversations Pensacola evangelist Kent Hovind made from the jail since his Nov. 2, 2006 incarceration on tax-fraud charges were played in open court Friday.

The 31-minute tape came from excerpts of between 80 and 90 hours of taped phone conversations and was introduced by prosecutors as evidence Hovind was attempting to conceal assets and had not accepted responsibility for his actions.
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From: http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070120/VIDEO/70119009/1006
 
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In the tape he claims they are "Breaking the law". Of course I believe he's wrong but could someone tell me his reasoning behind this? What exactly his he saying is against the law?
 
Dustin said:
In the tape he claims they are "Breaking the law". Of course I believe he's wrong but could someone tell me his reasoning behind this? What exactly his he saying is against the law?
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He thinks he is being punished for a law that doesn't exist (24:04 on the tape). It's like his perception of science.

-"Just show me one law that I have broken." (24:04 on the tape)
-"Just show me one case of evolution." (read his $250,000 evolution challenge)

If he goes to a local library he can educate himself on both accounts. He won't because it doesn't back up his ideology.

Sadly, you can hear his wife being skeptical on his claims, but his dominating personality won't allow any dissent. He told her to learn to live with it. What a shame for his wife.
 
Wow. Even now, he reaches out for money from the gullible. Can't say I'm surprised.
 
It's pretty sad listening to the tape considering what his family is going through with all of this. It seems clear, He's pretty damn stubborn.
 
In the tape he claims that it's illegal to prosecute anyone under federal law if the commit a law within the confines of a specific state. This doesn't make any sense. He claims that since he committed the crime in Florida that he must be prosecuted in Florida by a local and not federal court.

Is he indeed being tried in federal court?

If so, What crimes are to be tried in federal court? Obviously his is one of the types?
 
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