Please meet Richard Tatum, owner of Associated Marine & Industrial Staffing Inc. (AMI), which a temporary staffing company.  Richard lives in Humble, which is dangerously close to Houston.

Everybody thought AMI was very successful because Ole Richard was living pretty high on the hog.

Then the cover came off —

Tatum withheld from his employees approximately $12 million in payroll taxes from March 2008 through December 2012, but did not pay over any of this money to the IRS. Tatum also failed to pay $6 million of AMI’s required share of social security and Medicare taxes during the same quarters. Instead, he used the money for his personal benefit, including making payments on his ranch and traveling to Las Vegas, Hawaii and France. Tatum admitted that he caused a tax loss of more than $18 million.

So, Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen just had a hunch and check campaign finance records.  Sure as the nose on your face.

Right smack dab in the middle of all his stealing taxpayer money, Alfredo found:

So, if you check the Handbook and Guide to Being a Dick, it says that you should start stealing money from little children’s healthcare and grandma social security check, and step 2 is to joint Republican Party.

Tatum is going to jail for three years and then has to figure out a way to pay back all the money he stole from us.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.