Gates Tax Cheat

Gates Is Revising Tax Return After Questions Raised

Obama: "Shoot, he coulda been Sec/Treas. You know. Blood."

“ A charity headed by star Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. is filing an amended 2007 report to the Internal Revenue Service because $11,000 it paid to foundation officers as compensation was mischaracterized as being for research grants. ... The e-mail spotlighted a $10,000 grant made to Joanne Kendall, the foundation's treasurer, pointing out that she is also Gates' assistant at Harvard. Gates ...  said Monday that the award to Kendall was actually payment for doing administrative work for Inkwell and not, as Inkwell's IRS 990 form states, a research grant. "It should have been listed as compensation," he said in a telephone interview. In part, he added, the payment was designed to make sure she wasn't doing foundation work on Harvard's dime. Gates also said $1,000 paid to foundation secretary Abby Wolf was for secretarial work, not research ... [Obama culture of corruption cont]. ”