Ms Sweet, why do you do this (scroll down a bit once at SFGate) to yourself!?! This adds to the mystery brought up in last week's SF Bay Guardian.
From the Chronicle
BART board director Lynette Sweet, who is running for supervisor in San Francisco's District 10, failed to disclose the $120,000 she was paid by an energy provider over the past two years for community outreach in the Bayview.
Sweet was hired by the lobbying firm HMS Associates at $5,000 a month to help smooth the way for a high-voltage cable line that an Australian developer, Babcock & Brown, was bringing into the neighborhood to provide backup energy for the city.
Sweet, however, never reported the income on the annual economic disclosure reports she was required to file with the state as a BART director - that is, until we began making inquires.
Sweet says she has since amended her disclosure forms to reflect the income.
"That is nobody's fault but mine," she said.
The lapse comes on the heels of our recent report that Sweet owed the federal government at least $20,000 in back taxes and penalties - money she said she thought she paid to the Internal Revenue Service three years ago.
She says she has now paid it.
Read more at the Chronicle and at the SF Bay Guardian.
And this year's EssEffie prize winner for "Fiction Writing in the Tax Reporting Category goes to ... Lynette Sweet." What a buffoon. She should really get a fright wig, big ball to put on her nose, and some oversize shoes and hit the road with the circus. I bet Ringling could use another professional clown.
ReplyDeleteHit the road Lynette. Better yet, let BART do the driving.
SWEET - Australian for "Corrupt."
ReplyDeleteI have to say, I have always found the IRS to be excellent communicators. It is IMPOSSIBLE to not know you owe them money.
ReplyDeleteI don't have a problem with her owing them money, if she was on a payment plan and had been upfront and clean about her answer. But the dancing around BS and saying she sent them a check but it was made out to her?
Please. Try again. Somewhere else.