The government says its efforts to claim unpaid taxes from the first “Survivor” winner necessarily involve levying a tax lien on a house under his sister’s name.
The Department of Justice told the District Court for the District of Rhode Island that it was justified in seeking to enforce a federal tax lien on the Newport, R.I., house of Kristen Hatch, sister of Richard Hatch. He has been in a 20-year dispute over the taxes of his winnings.
Hatch, who won $1 million in the first season of “Survivor” in 2000, didn’t pay taxes on the winnings. Hatch has argued ...
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