You know the TaxMaster’s guy on teevee, Patrick Cox?

You know the guy who says he will make sure that the IRS treats you fairly and with respect?

Well, not so much TaxMasters.

The familiar bearded TV pitchman for TaxMasters – Patrick Cox – was convicted today of defrauding customers and ordered to pay $195 million.

An Austin jury found him guilty of deceptive trade practices.

Now this would be just another example of greed bringing down another Republican fat cat who made their money off society’s most vulnerable people during stressful times in their lives, except for a couple of things.

First, in typical Republican fashion, TaxMasters  filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection one day before the jury trial was set to begin.

And second —

Cox is a major contributor to Gov. Rick Perry , donating $100,000 to the Republican governor’s re-election campaign in 2010.

The Perry campaign says it still hasn’t decided what it’ll do with Cox’s donation.  Really?  You’ve got almost a million dollars in your campaign account and you can’t decide what to do with $100,000 of money that was stolen from people?

You’re a spherical jerk, Rick Perry.  That means you’re a jerk no matter what way I look at you.