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93-Year-Old Woman Owed $2,300 in Tax Debt so Government Sold Her $40,000 Home and Kept all Proceeds
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2022
by Ashleigh Dye
published in Criminal Legal News
November, 2022, page 50
Filed under:
Search and Seizure.
Location:
Minnesota.
by Ashleigh N. Dye
Geraldine Tyler, 93, of Minneapolis owed the government nearly $15,000 in tax debt, so the government sold her home for $40,000 and kept the proceeds. Tyler left her condominium in 2010 after gun violence in her neighborhood and dangerous situations left her feeling unsafe. She was ...
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