Judge dismisses former Rep. Hart's 2nd bankruptcy
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Federal authorities are closer to seizing a tax-protesting former northern Idaho lawmaker's home after a judge dismissed his second bankruptcy filing.
Ex-state Rep. Phil Hart has been ordered by courts to pay the federal government and state more than $600,000 in delinquent income taxes, interest and penalties.
He's tried to protect assets including his log home in Athol by filing a pair of bankruptcies.
The Spokesman-Review reports both have now been dismissed, the latest Monday by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Terry L. Myers, who ordered Hart to submit to a Jan. 7 deposition.
Hart's bankruptcies were rejected as inappropriate.
In the first, he proposed repaying about $12,000 of the total owed.
The second one that Myers dismissed this week proposed paying $106 monthly for three years -- about $3,800 total.
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Information from: The Spokesman-Review, http://www.spokesman.com
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