Making
a
lot
of
money
comes
with
some
real
obligations.
No
—
not
the
ones
Peter
Singer
lays
out
in
Famine,
Affluence,
and
Morality
—
the
ones
that
really
matter,
like
making
sure
the
government
gets
a
cut
of
your
cash!
Paying
taxes
and
voting
may
both
be
civic
duties,
but
deciding
to
opt
out
of
taxes
for
a
couple
of
years
will
get
you
locked
up
before
not
voting
will.
One
very
successful
lawyer
had
to
learn
that
the
hard
way.
Reuters
has
coverage:
A
former
longtime
general
counsel
to
Moody’s was
sentenced
by
a
New
Jersey
federal
judge
on
Thursday
to
8
months
in
prison
for
willfully
failing
to
file
personal
federal
income
tax
returns.Federal
prosecutors
said
John
Goggins
earned
$54
million
between
2018
and
2021
and
failed
to
file
federal
income
taxes
during
those
years.
Goggins
stepped
down
as
Moody’s
senior
vice
president
and
general
counsel
last
fall.
Remember,
readers
at
home,
if
the
IRS
can
get
Capone,
they
can
get
you!
The
$3.1M
in
restitution
was
a
mitigating
factor
in
Goggins’s
sentencing,
but
he’d
have
likely
been
better
off
if
he
just
paid
what
he
owed
before
it
got
to
this
point.
Don’t
let
his
punishment
be
yours
too;
pay
your
damned
taxes!
Moody’s
Former
Top
Lawyer
Gets
8-Month
Sentence
In
Personal
Tax
Case
[Reuters]
Chris
Williams
became
a
social
media
manager
and
assistant
editor
for
Above
the
Law
in
June
2021.
Prior
to
joining
the
staff,
he
moonlighted
as
a
minor
Memelord™
in
the
Facebook
group Law
School
Memes
for
Edgy
T14s.
He
endured
Missouri
long
enough
to
graduate
from
Washington
University
in
St.
Louis
School
of
Law.
He
is
a
former
boatbuilder
who
cannot
swim, a
published
author
on
critical
race
theory,
philosophy,
and
humor,
and
has
a
love
for
cycling
that
occasionally
annoys
his
peers.
You
can
reach
him
by
email
at [email protected] and
by
tweet
at @WritesForRent.