Gothamist: Elderly Tax Lawyer Told He Can't Write Off Hookers

Karen

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:32:54 -0500

Oh, man, I hope Dick Wolf is reading about this guy...L&O SVU just HAS to do this for an episode!

NannyState

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:02:29 -0500

It would have set a bad precedent: had he succeeded in deducting these "therapeutic" expenses, the girls who serviced him might have been able to bill Medicare for their time. And COBRA rules do not cover "licky boom boom".

babyhitler

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:07:01 -0500

He should have just said they were dates like everyone else who takes a woman out to dinner, buys her a handbag and some jewelry for some licky boom boom down. Socially acceptable prostitution.

zodak

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:53:52 -0500

Jerry, all these big companies, they write off everything. + You don't even know what a write-off is. Do you? + No, I don't! But they do. And they're the ones writing it off.

dbc

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:12:55 -0500

Not a "Halby" ending for this guy. PS, the pic in the Post is scary!

jnguy

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:11:33 -0500

If this worked, we'd see huge write offs for people's cocaine habits.

Shannon

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:41:15 -0500

sexual healing, anyone?

HowBoutDemCowboys

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:36:36 -0500

Damn. That's a lot of money to be fucked; once by the hookers and twice by the government.

jibbly

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:31:24 -0500

He's got balls like grandpa from Little Miss Sunshine: Frank: You started snorting heroin? Grandpa: Let me tell ya, don't do that stuff. When you're young, you're crazy to do that shit. Frank: Well what about you? Grandpa: What about me? I'm old. When you're old you're crazy not to do it.

Felix Hoenikker

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:30:49 -0500

Crap, I have to call my accountant. Does the IRS take receipts written in Ky, lipstick, and bodily fluids?

Thespis

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:30:39 -0500

-- but no receipts.

Sinchy

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:21:42 -0500

This guy gots balls