Did Woodward Mean Daschle Has A Tax Problem?

A friend? InterMedia is Leo Hindery's firm. Doesn't that suggest this was some form of compensation - as in pay?

Mr. Thomas A. Daschle Chairman of Executive Advisory Board InterMedia Advisors, LLP

Update: Much more here. $100k in back taxes???

President Obama’s pick for secretary of health and human services, Tom Daschle, filed amended tax returns and paid more than $100,000 in back taxes on Jan. 2, administration officials said on Friday.

Mr. Daschle concluded that he owed the taxes for free use of a car and driver that had been provided to him by Leo Hindery Jr., the founder of a private equity firm known as InterMedia Advisors, the officials said.

Friday news dump. Recently Bob Woodward made a prediction that all of Obama's tax problems weren't over. And so it came to pass? Given Woodward's couching of the issue, I'm wondering if this may not be serious enough to present a real problem for the appointment. Woodward mentioned a nanny issue, too. Hell, the Democrats are all looking like nannies more and more everyday - only they're better paid. h/t Hot Air headlines Why don't Democrats pay their taxes, they raised them in the first place?

ABC News has learned that the nomination of former Senator Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., to be President Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services has hit a traffic snarl on its way through the Senate Finance Committee.

The controversy deals with a car and driver lent to Daschle by a wealthy Democratic friend, a chauffeur service the former senator used for years without declaring it on his taxes.

It remains an open question as to whether this is a "speed bump," as a Democratic Senate ally of Daschle put it, or something more damaging.

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Rangel, Other Reps, Party in Caribbean With Citi Funds

Friday, January 30, 2009 12:04 PM

By: Jim Meyers Article Font Size

Six Democratic members of Congress enjoyed a Caribbean junket sponsored by Citigroup after Congress had approved the $700 billion bailout of financial services firms in October.

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/rangel_carribean_citi/2009/01/30/176811.html

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Its not like that wealthy democrat friend who gave Dashle a car and driver for years, got anything in return. Right?