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U.S. v. MAZZEO

No. CIV.A. 98-3060-WGY.

306 F.Supp.2d 294 (2004)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Mary Ellen Margaret MAZZEO a/k/a Melony Mazzeo, Long Island Savings Bank, New York State Department of Taxation & Finance, and Richard L. Stern, as Chapter 7 Trustee in the case of Salvatore J. Mazzeo, Case No. 896-87418 (Bankr.E.D.N.Y.) Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

February 23, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bartholomew Cirenza, U.S. Department of Justice, Trial Attorney, Tax Division, Bonni J. Perlin, United States Department of Justice, Trial Attorney, Tax Division, Washington, DC, for United States of America, Plaintiff.

Joseph J. Haspel, Goshen, Joseph J. Haspel, Joseph J. Haspel, PLLC, for Mary Ellen Margaret Mazzeo, Defendant.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

YOUNG, District Judge.1

In this case equity and common sense war against the needs of the IRS, in a largely voluntary tax system, ruthlessly to grind down tax cheats. So it is that the IRS, by manipulating penalty and interest payments, can use a decades old tax debt (the principal of which has been fully paid and then some) to evict an innocent widow and her son from the family home.

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