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U.K. court says police can seize millions in unpaid taxes from misogynist influencer Andrew Tate

www.cbsnews.com

Summary

A U.K. court ruled police can seize $3.3 million in frozen assets from Andrew and Tristan Tate over unpaid taxes.

The funds, held in seven bank accounts, stem from $26.5 million in revenue allegedly earned tax-free from their online businesses.

Chief Magistrate Paul Goldspring called their actions a "straightforward cheat" to evade taxes, while Tate labeled the ruling "outright theft" and a "coordinated attack."

The brothers, already under house arrest in Romania for human trafficking charges, face additional allegations in the U.K. They deny all accusations.

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The $3 mil is cool, but I’m most delighted that CBS News put “misogynist influencer Andrew Tate” in a headline.
- So they can classify trash they just choose to do it subjectively.
- Would have been more accurate if they included "rapist" in there, but y'know... big fucking quotations "allegedly".
  Garbage belongs in the trash. Looks like I'll still be waiting for someone to take it out.
If he was American, he'd be the secretary of defense.
- He'd be co-heading the Department of Garbage Egos
- The department of sexually acceptable offenses.
- He bet on Romanian corruption instead.
- Ahm, he actually is half American......
See, the issue isn't that they've made a bunch of illegal money, it's that they haven't made enough illegal money, which means they're still susceptible to seeing consequences for it.
- Not really. Normal people would see prison time for felony tax evasion. They are just making him pay what he owes. He's not being punished. He's also under house arrest for human trafficking instead of prison. He's largely avoiding the consequences of his crimes.
I was thinking about this the other day when they mentioned just how rich billionaires are. It'll never happen, but if governments of the world wanted to could they just seize all of Musks or Bezos' assets? It's all made up anyway, right?
- Yes, assuming they found a benefit to doing so. We could/should nationalize spaceX at least. Tesla and Twitter is harder to argue, the boring company hasn't really been much of anything, but could easily be nationalized as well, for security and infrastructure.
  
  SpaceX is ran beyond stupid and useless. Under control of a sane independat CEO it might actually produce something useful .
How about the real crime here? Who stole that orc's chin?
Unfortunately he will earn that money back fairly quickly. The data leak showed that thousands of straight up morons are still paying these Trafficking Bros $50 a month
Hopefully the police do so.
Some good news at last.

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